Stiffly Formal Quotes & Sayings

He might as well have been telling me to build a damn rocketship. I had no idea what to do. — Amanda Hocking

There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup. — Daphne Guinness

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. — Marian Wright Edelman

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning. — Michael Lewis

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important. — Samuel Larsen

With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one corner, serving dark beer and kielbasa to keep up one's strength while browsing, and all around will be the kind of angels usually found in Victoria's Secret catalogs. — Michael Dirda

Any country that is not careful can be seized. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains. — Katharine Anthony

It's very tiring, being so old. But I do love living. — Elisabeth Murdoch

We give to others only peripheral improvisations. The plots, and themes of the music, like the plots and themes of our life, never alchemized into words, existed only in a state of music, stirring or numbing, exalting or despairing, but never named. — Anais Nin

Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion. — Eleanor Roosevelt