Surveilling Def Quotes & Sayings

The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep. — Arthur Symons

We have here another interesting proof of a connection between XIIth Dynasty Egypt and early Minoan Crete. — Leonard W. King

There's just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home. — Ashley Jensen

The soul must have its chosen sewers to carry away its ordure. This function is performed by persons, relationships, professions, the fatherland, the world, or finally, for the really arrogant - I mean our modern pessimists - by the Good God himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Luce," Jude said, unfurling the blanket cinched around me, grabbing my hands when he pulled them free, "you're my girl. The girl." To join the other emotions flashing over over his face, a trace of pain did as well. "When I look at Adriana, or any other girl for that matter, that's all I see. Some other girl who isn't my girl. I don't see them, Luce. I see you," he continued, his skin lining between his brows. "I've only ever seen you. — Nicole Williams

In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is. — Terry Pratchett

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure. — Richard Paul Evans

I'd worked with Mel Harris before, I love working with her, she's great. — David Keith

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water? — Douglas Adams

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream. — Jodi Picoult

White people covered the earth like lice. — Louise Erdrich

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home. — Ellsworth Huntington

Man is a paradoxical being-the constant glory and scandal of this world. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

The chance to do it over again is called now. — J.R. Rim

This is a book called Women in the Shade of Islam. It's published by the government of Saudi Arabia. I picked it up in Pakistan, where the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary, and our young wife in California would've picked up an item like this. And it puts out that Salafi-Wahhabi ideology that is ultimately the toxic poison that is crossing all these borders. — Dalia Mogahed