Sherieta Quotes & Sayings

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it. — Jodi Picoult

It seems obvious that any serious reader will have learned long
ago how much time to give a book before choosing to shut it.
It's only the young, still attached to that sense of achievement
inculcated by anxious parents, who hang on doggedly when
there is no enjoyment. — Tim Parks

We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone. — Joseph Conrad

It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away for a long, long time and then you come home again. And it's so long you don't recognize the place. Don't know the furniture, don't recognize the floor plan. But you know by the feel of it that it's an old familiar place and you are glad you came."
"I like it here," said. Ebenezer and he meant Webster's lap, but the man misunderstood.
"Of course, you do," he said. "It's your home as well as mine. More your home, in fact, for you stayed here and took care of it while I forgot about it. — Clifford D. Simak

Use the muscle in your skull, and then the one in your pants. Impress me with your vocabulary, and then your sexual attentiveness. — Jasinda Wilder

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. — Herman Melville

Any avenue that you follow leads to light. All roads lead to Rome. — Frederick Lenz

Imagine my not letting him sink, as I was his fag!' said Mr. Tartar. — Charles Dickens

One of the reasons that most literary artists are contemptuous of Sigmund Freud - whose thought Vladimir Nabokov once characterized as no more than private parts covered up by Greek myths - is that his extreme determinism is felt to be immensely untrue to the rich complexity of life, with its twists and turns and manifold surprises. — Joseph Epstein