Show Offs Getting Quotes & Sayings

Any more packages for Solange?"
"Twelve letters, three packages, and a box of puppies."
I winced. "Puppies?"
"They're fine. Isabeau took them all."
"Good. Who eats puppies?" I shook my head.
"Yeah, Isabeau swore in French. A lot."
"Hot."
"Yeah, Logan nearly went cross-eyed."
"Chapter 12 — Alyxandra Harvey

Gardens come and go, but I find myself getting attached to certain perennials. My tulips are bridesmaids, with fat faces and good posture. Hollyhocks are long necked sisters. Daffodils are young girls running out of a white church, sun shining on their heads. Peonies are pink-haired ladies, so full and stooped you have to tie them up with string. And roses are nothing but (I hate to say it) bitches
pretty show-offs who'll draw blood if you don't handle them just right.
-Vangie Galliard Nepper, From her
"Garden Diary," March 1952 — Michael Lee West

Master the chaos within yourself and I promise you, you will gain the strength to withstand any storm. — Nikki Rowe

There is no singular truth known to man. All that we know is but a fraction. Truth can only be seen in pieces. — Kay Whitley

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. — Amiri Baraka

Parts of my soul had always been missing, but I felt whole for the first time. The emptiness inside of me was gone and had been replaced by a warm glow that made my entire world look brighter and more bearable. I had to have more. — Elizabeth Garrison

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really. — Andy Grove

I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time. — Debra Messing

This book is a string of fine pearls to be hung round the neck of human intelligence; a fragrant flower to be borne on the turband of mental wisdom; a jewel of pure gold, which becomes the brow of all supreme minds; and a handful of powdered rubies, whose tonic effects will appear palpably upon the mental digestion of every patient. — Anonymous

I'm really open to everything. — Christina Ricci

My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse. August — R.J. Palacio

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. — Samuel Johnson

I won't play a teenager. — Scott Thompson

The stores along Hollywood Boulevard were already beginning to fill up with overpriced Christmas junk, and the daily papers were beginning to scream about how terrible- it would be if you didn't get your Christmas shopping done early. — Raymond Chandler

There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city, [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an exciting prospect, she said - a network of natural libraries for teaching children about the region's rare and fragile ecosystems - and about themselves. — Richard Louv