Strimling Quotes & Sayings

I lived in a kind of dream of communism. — Bernardo Bertolucci

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten. — Joel Salatin

In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn't all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance? — Peggy Kopman-Owens

I trained as a ballet dancer till I was 18, so I would really like to get back to it. I'd love it if there was a part that meant I could do both acting and ballet, as they're both so close to my heart. — Jessica Brown Findlay

Nothing about multiculturalism antagonized Rachel. She liked all kinds of food, clothing, cultural customs, and music. The one thing that held her aloof was a fear of offending through ignorance. — Ausma Zehanat Khan

A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots. — Darin Strauss

Substitute any vegetable that grows with its leafy head aboveground for another: a flower for a flower, a root for a root, shoot for shoot, stem for stem, tuber for tuber. (No rules apply to beets. — Tamar Adler

Never be a minion, always be an owner. — Cornelius Vanderbilt

Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well. — Jeffrey Rosen

Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless. — Vince Lombardi

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume - and no farther than to my first day's life - 'tis demonstrative that I have three hundred and sixty-four days more life to write just now, than when I first set out; so that instead of advancing, as a common writer, in my work with what I have been doing at it - on the contrary, I am just thrown so many volumes back - — Laurence Sterne

I do realize that I am a very slow realizer. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Where in the nine hells did you ever find the notion that I would fight fair? — R.A. Salvatore

It was difficult to pull away, like fighting gravity with nothing more than a hopeful leap. — Susan Byrde