Slapshock Quotes & Sayings

I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses — Jeanette Winterson

As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine may be As to an intricate lock the simple key. — John Barlas

You, minion, are too saucy. — William Shakespeare

You're beautiful," Archer murmured, his husky voice rolling over my skin. He reached up with his other hand to touch the blue streak in my hair. "You're like a creature from some exotic land that no one has discovered yet. — Nina Lane

Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided. — Thomas Jefferson

No one knew better than he how an understanding of poetry depends on an understanding of the poet's universe. — Jocelyn Gibb

When you see people with "the right stuff," those who choose the right over the wrong or the "iffy," let them know you're proud of them. Encourage the courageous, so they'll have the will to carry on. — Price Pritchett

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling. — Richard Branson

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. — Edgar Allan Poe

The net is not a net until it begins to work. Work your network today! — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly. — Samaire Armstrong

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. — Tom Robbins

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us. — Stephen Hawking

I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up. — Bill Watterson