Summertime Reading Quotes & Sayings

The heart has shattered into billions of jagged pieces, which scatter throughout the body, unable to cauterize them together until a new lover finds the debris and slowly joins them to completeness. — Rosemary Rey

It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact was, I suppose, there were powerful tides tugging us apart by then, and it only needed something like that to finish the task. If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol. — Eva Mendes

This was killing her. She had to break the silence. This was not natural. It was too awful. People were
meant to talk. — Julia Quinn

Sometimes the best advice comes from those whom you least expect ... therefore take no one for granted — Jeremy Aldana

Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies. — Jacki Weaver

Summertime, and the reading is easy ... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly the months to start working your way through the works of Germanic philosophers. Save Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl for the bleaker days of February. — Michael Dirda

Time comes when every man's got to feel something new
when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook. — Clare Boothe Luce

We've demonstrated in modern countries or industrialized countries that women can do what men can do, but we have not demonstrated that men can do what women can do therefore children are still mostly raised, hugely mostly raised by women and women in industrialized modern countries end up having two jobs one outside the home and one inside the home. — Gloria Steinem

In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people. — Tina Fey

If the Savior could die for the world, can't we work for it? — Dwight L. Moody

It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him. — Vincent De Paul

both of them having moved through space and across the parenting continuum to voice their concern for their middle daughter, the one in no-man's-land between the trenches of childhood and adulthood. — Laura Buzo

I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage. — T. J. Miller