Screened Patio Quotes & Sayings

There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers — Lindsey Graham

I don't set myself targets. Last season I scored hat-trick against Wolfsburg and three days later, that was forgotten, you're about to be judged again. When you've done well, you don't want another game, you just want to feel great. When you've done badly, you can't wait for another chance to come. — Michael Owen

And the kids?"
"Quincy, nothing. All she wants to do is look for Saturn's rings and bring home every creature from the pound. Nelson, though, he's ... " She looked at Nicholas. "He's like you. Gifted, but ignorant."
Nicholas bristled, "I'm not ignorant."
"You are about magic."
"That's because I don't believe in magic."
"Nicholas," She stopped, hands on hips, waiting until he turned around. "You're haunted. You see the dead. How can you not believe in magic? — Stephen M. Irwin

Lets rattle the stars. — Sarah J. Maas

Gansey thought of how strange it was to know these two young men so well and yet to not know them at all. Both so much more difficult and so much better than when he'd first met them. Was that what life did to them all? Chiselled them into harder, truer versions of themselves? — Maggie Stiefvater

Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that. — Harry Oppenheimer

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. — Michael J. Fox

It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's. — Sloane Crosley

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again. — John Dryden

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world. — Daniel Tammet

Jesus Christ," she said. "You are just like him, a master of the fucking oblique answer. — Robert B. Parker

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle.

I walk to the corner and wait. I used to be bad at waiting. They also serve who only stand and wait, said Aunt Lydia. She made us memorize it. She also said, Not all of you will make it through. Some of you will fall on dry ground or thorns. Some of you are shallow-rooted. She had a mole on her chin that went up and down while she talked. She said, Think of yourselves as seeds, and right then her voice was wheedling, conspiratorial, like the voices of those women who used to teach ballet classes to children, and who would say, Arms up in the air now; let's pretend we're trees. — Margaret Atwood