Spiffing Quotes & Sayings

I'm so involved in melancholy. — Isaac Mizrahi

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes. — Christopher Dodd

If we are inherently spiritual creatures, we are by our nature creative beings, yet we live in the fear that if we aspire to be more we will discover ourselves to be less. — Erwin Raphael McManus

How many times have I missed an incredible connection that could have been made because I had my face in my phone instead of paying attention to those around me? — Adam Braun

The retirees are gone from their plastic rockers on the front porches of the aging art-deco hotels. Hookers, dealers, pimps, chicken hawks, and runaways no longer stroll Ocean Drive, hustling their wares. The Yuppies have staked claims to South Beach, spiffing up the old buildings with turquoise and salmon paint, dressing themselves in bright, baggy cottons and silks, and hovering on the perimeter of perpetual trendiness. — Paul Levine

If you've gone through your worst fears and you're still here let me congratulate you, because it means that you are stronger than your fears. — Jeanette Coron

People should just be allowed to look in the mirror and see all kinds of possibilities. — M-E Girard

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you. — Stephen King

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion. — Kate Atkinson

Harry!" said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. "Simply splendid to see you, old boy-"
"Marvelous," said George, pushing Fred aside and seizing Harry's hand in turn. "Absolutely spiffing."
Percy scowled.
"That's enough, now," said Mrs. Weasley.
"Mum!" said Fred as though he'd only just spotted her and seizing her hand too. "How really corking to see you- — J.K. Rowling

My first impulse is always to behave, about everything, as if I feared complications. But I don't fear them - I really like them. They're quite my element. — Henry James