Shabbier Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I do my job like I breathe - so if I can't breathe I'm in trouble. — Karl Lagerfeld

Do well and right and let the world sink. — George Herbert

Hey, come back to me. — Alex Rosa

The dull, hazy light played along the polished blade like water. — Steven Erikson

So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered hap-hazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to you; that the pavements which you tread are merely stones. Later on, when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. — Victor Hugo

Everybody was a potential assailant; nobody spoke to one another for fear of being misinterpreted; nobody comforted another, put an arm around a shoulder-to do so would be to invite accusation. — Alexander McCall Smith

It turned out keeping reality bound by mathematical laws was a useful hack preventing the Devil from existing. — Scott Alexander

If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine ... — Zac Efron

There's a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I'd given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

Once upon a time there was a beautiful Indian maiden, of course. — Stephen Crane

According to my experience, I can testify that both riches and poverty pass away, but God abides. Whether we are rich or poor, God is. — Witness Lee

Ironically, the rise of the Tea Party increased the interventions of the Fed that the movement denounced. — Yanis Varoufakis

If you know that everything comes from the mind, don't become attached. Once attached, you're unaware. But once you see your own nature, the entire Canon becomes so much prose. It's thousands of sutras and shastras only amount to a clear mind. Understanding comes in midsentence. What good are doctrines? The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions ... Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers ... — Bodhidharma

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating. — Katherine Dunn

Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together. — Jefferson Davis