The Imported Bridegroom Quotes & Sayings

Funny how growing up can change your opinion of being afraid of the dark and afraid of the bills. — Amelia Hutchins

the concept of Mary Poppins is even stronger, implying a secure childhood and an answer to women's perennial problem: how to balance their lives between their needs and their family's demands. — Valerie Lawson

Can you catch the expression of the Sperm Whale's there? It is the same he died with, only some of the longer wrinkles in the forehead seem now faded away. I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death. But mark the other head's [Right Whale] expression. See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw. Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical resolution in facing death? This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years. — Herman Melville

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. — Russell Baker

So I told him that I don't look for boyfriends; I look for a person, then if the person happens to be the one then he's the one. And if not, then not! And I was also thinking to myself, about how I will not commit myself to a man more than he is willing to commit himself to me. I refuse to be braver. I choose to be secure. I am brave in so many areas of life and when it comes to a man I would rather he be braver than I. I would rather he commit himself to me in ways that will make my heart know him so well that I can say he swims in my blood and he walks inside my bones. But for me to throw my commitment in front of him, on the ground, to see if it's good enough? Hell will freeze over before that happens. I compromise myself in many ways, because compromise is selfless and compromise is giving. But one thing I will not compromise is my commitment. I have to feel safe to do that. I have to know that I am reciprocating; not initiating. — C. JoyBell C.

Now in those days, my brothers, the teaming up was mostly by fours and fives, these being like auto-teams, for being a comfy number for an auto, and six being the outside limit for gang-size. Sometimes gangs would gang up so as to make like malenky armies for big nightwar, but mostly it was best to roam in these like small numbers. — Anthony Burgess

Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K. — Demetri Martin

My health is very much improved. — Lech Walesa

Human Angels are souls who have chosen to be born now on this planet to awaken themselves and humanity to Unconditional Love and Awareness of the Oneness. — Human Angels

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne. — Cynthia Ozick

Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either. — Ellen Hopkins

You can't be a major company today without paying attention to celebrities. They are the leaders in beauty and fashion. — Aerin Lauder

Is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. — Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Hurry is the weakness of fools. — Baltasar Gracian

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies. — Vera B. Williams