Sniffily Quotes & Sayings

They were delivered to mansions remodeled into country clubs, boarding schools, retreats for the insane, alcohol cures, health farms, wildlife sanctuaries, wallpaper factories, drafting rooms and places where the aged and the infirm waited sniffily for the angel of death in front of their television sets. — John Cheever

At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?" — Norman Cousins

Each jubilating hand hand the potential to vivisect, each hailing mouth had the power to condemn someone to death. — Moses Isegawa

It was sort of like being in one of those love-and-horror supernatural novels, the kind Mrs. Robinson in the school library sniffily called "tweenager porn." In those books the girls dallied with werewolves, vampires - even zombies - but hardly ever became those things. It was also nice to have a grown man stand up for her, and it didn't hurt that he was handsome, in a scruffy kind of way that reminded her a little of Jax Teller on Sons of Anarchy, a show she and Emma Deane secretly watched on Em's computer. — Stephen King

For the most part, I did trust my own judgement. But I was more than capable of screwing up. Just, sometimes, I forgot about that in my quest to move forward. — Gwenda Bond

Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work. — James J. Hill

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing. — Jean Kerr

Which people show you an attitude, they people have not an aptitude ... — Dhiren Prajapati

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13. — Merle Haggard

Myself," said the drone sniffily, "I have never been able to see what virtue there could be in something that was eighty percent water. — Iain M. Banks

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment. — Gever Tulley

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward. — George Washington

Shakespeare in the Park is one of the greatest gifts in New York City. You just have to wait for the tickets - and it's worth the wait. — Jesse L. Martin

God walked out the book to walk into the temple..
And I walked back home..
For the Book had Rules and Temples had timings... — Abha Maryada Banerjee

I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since. — Carl Spitteler

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you. — Frank Herbert

Originality is really important. — Jim Carrey