Sunderlands Omaha Quotes & Sayings

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes. — Henry David Thoreau

The Willoughby parents frequently forgot that they had children and became quite irritable when they were reminded of it. — Lois Lowry

I just want to sound different than everyone else. I don't care if it sounds bad. I just want people to be like, 'Yo, that dude Benny was different.' Even if it sounds awful, at least they can't say, 'Oh well, I've heard that before.' — Benny Blanco

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary. — John Hawley

This was the sort of girl who should be attending college, not ones like that dreadful Minkoff girl, that brutal and slovenly girl who had almost been raped by one of the janitors just outside of his office. Dr. Talc shuddered at the very thought of Miss Minkoff. In class she had Insulted and challenged and vilified him at every turn, egging the Reilly monster to join in the attack. He would never forget those two; no one on the faculty ever would. They were like two Huns sweeping down on Rome. Dr. Talc idly wondered if they had married each other. Each certainly deserved the other. — John Kennedy Toole

The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear. — Patricia Cornwell

Yes, something [book] to transport your mind from where and who and what you are. Everyone needs that. A time or two in my past, it seemed that a book was the only thing that stood between me and near insanity. — Lisa Kleypas

I think for gay people to see gay people living honestly about everything they do is really a contribution. — Christopher Rice

Because one day of something wonderful is better than a forever of nothing special. — Lisa Kleypas

If you want to get rid of the perceived meaning of curse words, you'll have to get rid of the feelings which bring their use, and that's not going to happen. — Orlando Winters

Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it. — Dan Ariely

I had to be different ... so I would not be inferior. We could not occupy the same space together. Like horses in a race, I was tired of jostling for position and losing. I chose a different course so that losing would not be an option. — Julianne Donaldson

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I get it. You have the right to have guns. But look, let's forget that right. Let's forget the pleasure you get safely on your range, because it's in the wrong hands in other places. — Matthew McConaughey