Storify Dear Quotes & Sayings

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race. — Albert J. Beveridge

It is the lot of mankind to feel not only insecure but also bored. To combat that experience, people long to be passively entertained, which requires less effort than assuming responsibility for self-improvement. — Thomas Szasz

Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless. — Donald Hall

A whisper in my ear hints towards the silent moment Knows I'm alive — Niche

For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing. — Jean Dujardin

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together. — Gwyneth Paltrow

And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood. — Skitch Henderson

There is no us, and you know that as well as I do. There can't be. This is just a dream we're having. While all our friends sleep. — Ed Brubaker

And truths, these days, are spoken
The same way promises are made,
With gritted teeth and crossed fingers. — Sanhita Baruah

Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go,
And view the ocean leaning on the sky:
From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know,
And on the Lunar world securely pry. — John Dryden

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle. — Chinua Achebe

What I do see, for instance, is that the French are not very happy with the ... I am happy but they are not and I understand why they are not happy. They still believe in some nuclear strategic formulas which they have inherited from General De Gaulle and they have started the process of rethinking, they haven't gone very far. — Helmut Schmidt

Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new. — Donald Miller

A purple African violet so lush and fleshy it looked edible ... his fingers as cool and smooth as beach stones. — Wally Lamb