The Wasp Factory Quotes & Sayings

Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? Very few, I admit. It is unfortunate that they should so often have to make the choice. A man does not, as a rule, have to choose. He gets both. Nevertheless, there have been women ... who had the choice, and chose the job and made a success of it. And there have been and are many men who have sacrificed their careers for women ... When it comes to a choice, then every man or woman has to choose as an individual human being, and, like a human being, take the consequences. — Dorothy L. Sayers

That they lack, for if their heads had any intellectual armour they could never wear such heavy headpieces — William Shakespeare

The morning was so damp and misty — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game. — Ken Rosenthal

Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry. — Jen Lancaster

Sometimes losing everything is the only way to begin. — T.K. Kiser

If you do what everyone else does, you'll wind up having what everyone else has. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time ... — Sylvia Plath

PASSIVE PAVISSE-
ANAGRAM: Shield yourself from aggressors - Walk away without acknowledgement — Kamil Ali

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. — Thomas Merton

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second. — Leonardo Da Vinci

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous. — Jim Henson