Spintser Quotes & Sayings

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men. — Jean-Paul Sartre

there was a certain twinkle in his eye, a knowing cat-that-ate-the-canary grin that drew me in. — Matt Converse

If I'd been free to pick any name in the world, I would have one for something diaphanous and fanciful, like Coralie or Delphine, the kind of name a grand dame gives a petit chien. Because no one - no one - daydreams about pretty names more than girls called Jane. And with good reason, you know? I mean, even our most illustrious Janes are world-class stick-in-the-mud. Austen, Eyre, Doe? Spintser, sucker, corpse. It's a wonder I managed as well as I did. — Elizabeth Little

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith

What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a worm? Making the hole bigger to stay in? — Marita Bonner

I collect lucky pennies that I find on the ground. I keep them in a Ziploc bag. — Jessica Simpson

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music. — Renzo Piano

The truth is at a soul level you are an unlimited being with access to all kinds of information. — Catherine Carrigan

I lay down to sleep with the resolve that I would not let Galen deceive me any longer, nor persuade me to deceive myself. — Robin Hobb

I've met travelers who are so physically sturdy they could drink a shoebox of water from a Calcutta gutter and never get sick. People who can pick up new languages where others of us might only pick up infectious diseases. People who know how to stand down a threatening border guard or cajole an uncooperative bureaucrat at the visa office. People who are the right height and complexion that they kind of look halfway normal wherever they go - in Turkey they just might be Turks, in Mexico they are suddenly Mexican, in Spain they could be mistaken for a Basque, in Northern Africa they can sometimes pass for Arab ... — Elizabeth Gilbert

That was the entire reason to have battle commanders in the first place - so that one man could balance the advantages of logic and reason against the emotional, insane demands of close battle. — Jim Butcher

That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series. — Deyth Banger

Sleepiness seemed to be creeping out of the ground and up their legs, and falling softly out of the air upon theirheads and eyes. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Your journey has shaped you, made you both kind and great. — Rick Riordan

It is easy to hate and blame, but it is divine to love and care. — Debasish Mridha

Voices beyond my ability to measure suddenly hushing all at once. — Cameron Dokey