Starkela Quotes & Sayings

I don't want a boyfriend just for the sake of it. I don't trust most people out there. There's too much at risk and I don't need to be a notch on somebody's bedpost. I'll flirt with you all night long, but then it's buh, bye! — Mariah Carey

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck. — Chris Isaak

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

When we got home, she'd trail off to her room like an unfinished sentence, and I would sit outside with my face pressed against her door and replay the day in my head, searching for clues to what I'd done to displease her. — Gillian Flynn

Regret isn't like grief; it never lessens, just stays the same. A little hard ball in the pit of your stomach. — M.J. Rose

My hunger serves me instead of a clock. — Jonathan Swift

A watch manufacturer in New York tried out two series of watch advertisements; one argued the superior construction, workmanship, durability, and guarantee offered with the watch; the other was headed, "A Watch to be Proud of," and dwelt upon the pleasure and pride of ownership. The latter series sold twice as many as the former. A salesman for a locomotive works informed the writer that in selling railroad engines emotional appeal was stronger than an argument based on mechanical excellence. — J. Berg Esenwein

Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war? — Roma Tearne

As they were falling asleep, Gillian could have sworn she heard Ben say Fate
as if they were meant to be together from the start and every single thing they'd ever done in their lives had been leading to this moment. If you thought that way, you could fall asleep without regret. You could put your whole life in place, with all the sadness and the sorrow, and still feel that at last you had everything you ever wanted. In spite of the lousy odds and all the wrong turns, you might actually discover that you were the one who'd won. — Alice Hoffman

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. — Bill Cosby