Sharpeners Report Quotes & Sayings

I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. — John Maynard Keynes

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. — J.L. Austin

Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news. — Ruth Gordon

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. — Richard Powers

She could not bear to lie in bed and wait, so she pestered the nurse until she could sit on a veranda, screened by a thick curtain of golden shower from the street, because she could assure herself she was not blind by looking through her glowing eyelids at the light from the sky. She sat there all day, and felt the waves of heat and perfume break across her in shock after shock of shuddering nostalgia. But nostalgia for what? — Doris Lessing

I think your mouth is its own Greek god. Tongueseus. — Christina Lauren

Suffering occurs when love's two hands pull your soul in two directions. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by the death of ex-Secretary of the Interior [Franklin K.] Lane. He remained in public service, doing most noble work, until his means became absolutely exhausted, and he died before having had the opportunity to reaccumulate any bank account ... He died leaving no estate whatsoever. Is what he did leave more to be desired, more to be coveted, than a fortune reaching into six or seven figures? — B.C. Forbes

The best exercise for your heart, is reaching out and helping somebody. — Tim Russert

I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down. — Scott Rudin

Supplication is to implore God for mercy and compassion, to have pity upon you or to grant you the request given and expect that He will do it. — Robin Bertram

The Internet at that time was this big, exciting place where you could anonymously spill your guts about gender and discomfort and heteronormativity and how weird male privilege felt and lots of other things, except back then she didn't really have language for it so she just went like: everything sucks and I am totally sad. Just over and over and over and over, with minor variations and the occasional cuss word. — Imogen Binnie