Smiffys Quotes & Sayings

She'd found him. She'd helped him. She'd saved him. He was hers. And they'd taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. — Laura Kaye

I had shelved expectations of another kiss; the intensity of not kissing now worked almost as well - the proximity and denial. — Olivia Sudjic

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles. — Paul A. Volcker

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same. — Jock Sturges

Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever. — George Herbert

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. — Samuel Johnson

Einstein had, for the first time connected new and measurable consequences to statistical physics. That might sound like a largely technical achievement, but on the contrary, it represented the triumph of a great principle: that much of the order we percieve in nature belies an invisible underlying disorder and hence can be understood only through the rules of randomness. — Leonard Mlodinow

Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed. — Karl Kraus

There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day - that is, forget oneself. To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life. — Leo Tolstoy

Sin has made us stupid, so that we can only learn the hard way. — Peter Kreeft

Howard, instead of trying to explain the hermit's existence in terms of hearth fires and trappers' shacks, preferred the blank space the old man actually seemed to inhabit; he liked to think of some fold in the woods, some seam that only the hermit could sense and slip into, where the ice and snow, where the frozen forest itself, would accept him and he would no longer need fire or wool blankets, but instead flourish wreathed in snow, spun in frost, with limbs like cold wood and blood like frigid sap. — Paul Harding

People do not understand that what I do on stage is a character, my fans know who I truly am. — Miley Cyrus

Who can find a virtuous woman?
For her price is far above rubies. — Anonymous