Skovenski Quotes & Sayings

Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it. — Tarryn Fisher

Confidence is everything, but a little makeup can't hurt. — Bobbi Brown

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills. — George Eliot

No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.
A fissure forms in the vessel. I'm cracking open. — Libba Bray

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. — David Remnick

The more your players have to think on the basketball court, the slower their feet get. — Jerry Tarkanian

Every pot must sit on its own bottom. — Benjamin Franklin

An Englishman once said that he found it easier to be a member of a club than of the human race because the bylaws were shorter, and he knew all the members personally. That sounds about right. — Nelson DeMille