Secheresse Quotes & Sayings

I take it, though, ... given the utter lack of change in your demeanor and nearly radiating I-just-slaughtered-a -bunch-of-infant-forest-animals guilt coming from your general direction ... the exchange with your female friend went something a trifle short of fantastic. — Anihyr Moonstar

I like the story about me being pregnant. It was in some Australian magazine, on the front page! I was like, 'Wow, that's just [insane].' And it's not even ironic. I don't even think the article [tried to justify it]; it was just a headline. The article was just like, nothing. — Robert Pattinson

The best endings never end; they begin — Ela Crain

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress. — Idries Shah

The goodnesses you do will beautifully cover you like the beautiful flowers covering a country house! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There was one less monster on earth, and the world was certainly better off without him. — Craig R. Key

The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it. — Lena Headey

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely. — Gail Carson Levine

An obedient wife commands her husband. — Benjamin Disraeli

I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife. — Sylvia Plath

My dad liked to say that magic itself is never black; only the uses to which it is put, but mind magic is already tinted a deep, dark gray. — Christine Amsden

I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing. — Diane Sawyer

I truly missed my parents. I wanted to miss them. It was the only way I could love them, a crazy cocktail of longing and pretending and absence and hope. — Heather Sellers

It's interesting that penny-pinching is an accepted defense for toxic food habits, when frugality so rarely rules other consumer domains. The majority of Americans buy bottled drinking water, for example, even though water runs from the faucets at home for a fraction of the cost, and government quality standards are stricter for tap water than for bottled. At any income level, we can be relied upon for categorically unnecessary purchases: portable-earplug music instead of the radio; extra-fast Internet for leisure use; heavy vehicles to transport light loads; name-brand clothing instead of plainer gear. "Economizing," as applied to clothing, generally means looking for discount name brands instead of wearing last year's clothes again. The dread of rearing unfashionable children is understandable. But as a priority, "makes me look cool" has passed up "keeps arteries functional" and left the kids huffing and puffing (fashionably) in the dust. — Barbara Kingsolver

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one. — Winston Churchill