Scrutinised Crossword Quotes & Sayings

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt
something is gained but something is lost. — Zadie Smith

Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings. — Allan Lokos

All men are so afflicted, from time to time. — George R R Martin

A single instant brings much to pass that no one dreams of. — Publilius Syrus

Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us. — Bill Nye

His exhaustion is that of the gladiator after the combat; his labor was the whitewashing of a corner of the wall in his office. — Kafka, Franz

For Children: You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a chicken. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple. The fried egg isn't properly a fried egg until it's been put in a frying pan and fried. This is something you wouldn't do to a Friday, of course, though you might do it on a Friday. You can also fry eggs on a Thursday, if you like, or on a cooker. It's all rather complicated, but it makes a kind of sense if you think about it for a while. — Douglas Adams

I'm theater trained. — Steve Zahn

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them. — A.A. Milne

Nagging and denial - the dance of marital intimacy — Magda Szubanski

And within two weeks, Peter Foo was already proven right. Business for the firm expanded in leaps & bounds as both old & new clients wanted to meet the lovely slave girl that he kept naked in his penthouse & to partake of the ambrosial Nectar that she served. So much so that the three million dollars that he had paid for her was fully recovered out of profits. And new orders that flooded the firm showed that his initial investment on the girl would increase in value tenfold within a year.
He had therefore acquired the lovely slave girl, Briseis,for free. And that was why Peter Foo was likened by the Directors to Zeus/Jupiter, the King of the Gods.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong

In the person of Your Son, You have spoken the world into being. He is the Light of the World, and through Him Light was made. — Stephen C. Magee

I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show. — Simon Cowell