Speech Bubble Quotes & Sayings

A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor. — Joshilyn Jackson

Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud to yourself. Home. Isn't it like taking a bite of something lovely? If only we could eat words. — Sol Luckman

Incidentally, although the Cistercians did much to improve the quality of sheep, the animal remained much smaller than its modern descendants; as late as the early eighteenth century a sheep wasn't much bulkier than a Labrador Dog. — Clarissa Dickson Wright

This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels. — Jim Wallis

Trapped inside a metaphor, I've often felt the need to re-describe it, to change the terms. This isn't so much a balloon, I've wanted to say, as a bubble within which I'm simultaneously exposed and sealed off ... depriving me of reality, reducing me to an abstraction ...
[NY, Dec. 1991; Columbia Graduate School Of Journalism Speech] — Salman Rushdie

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal. — Victor Cruz

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that. — Drake

Great creative teams are diverse. They are composed of very different sorts of people with different but complementary talents. — Ken Robinson

He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator
though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed. — John Barth

If you give voters a choice between a Democrat who promises to do nothing and a Republican who promises to do nothing, they're generally going to side with the Republican, because they're better at that than we are. — Martin O'Malley

Must not trouble the gods with our affairs; they take no heed of our angers and disputes.Plutarch.] — Michel De Montaigne