Stockhouse Quotes & Sayings

Speech baffled my machine. Helen made all well-formed sentences. But they were hollow and stuffed
linguistic training bras. She sorted nouns from verbs, but, disembodied, she did not know the difference between thing and process, except as they functioned in clauses. Her predications were all shotgun weddings. Her ideas were as decorative as half-timber beams that bore no building load.
She balked at metaphor. I felt the annoyance of her weighted vectors as they readjusted themselves, trying to accommodate my latest caprice. You're hungry enough to eat a horse. A word from a friend ties your stomach in knots. Embarrassment shrinks you, amazement strikes you dead. Wasn't the miracle enough? Why do humans need to say everything in speech's stockhouse except what they mean? — Richard Powers

'The Cosby Show' - no one thought there's doctors and lawyers who are married and live in brownstones! Back then no one would have thought we would have an African-American president. They would have laughed in your face. — Keshia Knight Pulliam

USA TODAY hopes to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation. — Al Neuharth

Sometimes people leave us because staying becomes an impossibility. Because the world just gets too small. Or, sometimes, because there is just one boat, and too many hands ... Because maybe, life can be a bit bigger than it exists today. And because, somewhere else, there may be another boat. — Collier Lumpkin

One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. — Rick Santorum

What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded. — Samuel Reshevsky

Her affection overwhelmed him, as did her softness, her tears. Even after all he'd said to her, after all he'd done-she still gave a damn whether he lived or died. It was humbling. Incomprehensible. Wonderful. If he'd known this would be his reward, he would have fallen overboard weeks ago. — Tessa Dare

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class. — Ferid Murad