Theodora Byzantine Quotes & Sayings

Well," he said, "this isn't too bad. My left leg is broken, but at least I'm right-legged. That's pretty fortunate."
"Gee," one of the other employees murmured. "I thought he'd say something more along the lines of 'Aaaaah! My leg! My leg!'"
"If someone could just help me get to my foot," Phil said, "I'm sure that I can get back to work."
"Don't be ridiculous," Violet said. "You need to go to a hospital."
"Yes, Phil," another worker said. "We have those coupons from last month, fifty percent off a cast at the Ahab Memorial Hospital. Two of us will chip in and get your leg all fixed up. I'll call for an ambulance right away. — Lemony Snicket

Our Parents were gods and monsters at the same time. Maybe we're all like that- gods and monsters — Maxine Paetro

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late. — Og Mandino

It was made from the black lotus, whose blossoms wave in the lost jungles of Khitai, where only the yellow-skulled priests of Yun dwell. Those blossoms strike dead any who smell of them. — Robert E. Howard

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards.
Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it.
A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer. — James Salter

I would love to go to India. And also someday, I want to have a family. That's my bucket-list. — Kacey Musgraves

By two o'clock in the morning they had each drunk three brandies, and he knew, in truth, that he was not the man she was looking for, and he was glad to know it. "Bravo, lionlady," he said when he left. "We have killed the tiger. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Don't call me when you're stuck in traffic. It's not my fault that radio sucks and did it ever occur to you that there wouldn't be so much traffic if people like you put down the phone and concentrated on the road ... besides I can't talk now, I'm in the car behind you trying to watch a DVD. — Bill Maher

How does the Authority usually handle storms like this?"
"Not well. — Devon Monk

The goal is to help the weak grow strong, not to let the weak become weaker. — Neale Donald Walsch

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium. — Mackenzie Crook

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around. — Bill Cosby

I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened. — Colin Hanks

What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today. — Steve Winwood

When you are frightened, don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give you back your courage. — Grace Ogot