Semesigue Quotes & Sayings

And just as Catskin went to the ball, and Cendrillon, and Aschenputtel, so must you. The ball that will be given soon in the palace; I've heard talk of it in the kitchens. The servants say one is held each year. Have you never gone?"
She shook her head.
"Then you must go this year dressed in a fine gown as it is done in the stories."
She sat staring at him. "Me, Gillie? I don't belong at the ball."
"As much as Cinderella did."
"But they are only stories; they're not things that can happen." She studied him for a long time. He did not seem to be making a joke.
"It's what you dream, Thursey. You should do what you dream of doing, else where is the good in dreaming? — Shirley Rousseau Murphy

I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh. — Jim Brown

Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving. — Will Smith

There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin. — Bela Fleck

Believe me, I've thought long and hard about leaving things alone. But then there will always be this wall between us." "It's all ugly things behind the wall," I said, not looking at him. "I'm not afraid of what's behind the wall, only the wall itself." But the wall was my exoskeleton. It was what held me up. Sometimes it was the only thing that held me up. — Sherry Thomas

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me. — William McDonough

I've won a championship on every level except the NBA. It's frustrating to have not gotten that in the first two years. — Steve Blake

I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in. — Henry Rollins

(1) he will use the extra profits to expand his operations by buying more machines to make more coats; or (2) he will invest the extra profits in some other industry; or (3) he will spend the extra profits on increasing his own consumption. Whichever of these three courses he takes, he will increase employment. — Henry Hazlitt

I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits? — Stuart Rose

achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body — Charles Dickens

I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine." He closed his eyes and laughed. "And yes, I know that sentiment is at the top of the Women's Liberation Movement's list of things not to say to a modern woman. — Patricia Briggs

Huh, Kelsier thought. He holds the powers of creation in twain, a god among gods. And he's still a terrible liar. — Brandon Sanderson

People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer. — Ed Begley Jr.

He hath always but slightly, known himself ... King Lear — William Shakespeare