This Year Has Been A Roller Coaster Ride Quotes & Sayings

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. — Ayn Rand

He'll come around. He's just shy." "Maybe I should lie down on a table in the workroom and wait to see if he welds something to me." "I think that's the way most great love stories begin."
Bardugo, Leigh (2012-06-05). Shadow and Bone (The Grisha) (p. 190). Henry Holt and Co. (BYR). Kindle Edition. — Leigh Bardugo

Rose was drowning in pleasure like she'd never known, just from a kiss. Jack wasn't touching her any place but on the lips and yet she could feel it on every inch of her body. Long, sure strokes of his tongue made her ache for him to explore the rest of her with equal thoroughness. She needed to touch him, why wasn't she touching him? — Mary J. Williams

... but then boys are so strange with their toys. Especially those accustomed to losing things. They hold on more tightly than the rest. — Victoria Aveyard

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing. — David Schwimmer

Orientation, the big O in the OODA loop, is the schwerpunkt. — Grant Hammond

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. — Winston Churchill

Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means. — Ian McEwan

Even when I'm reading a script where I'm supposed to be looking at the lead role, I'll find myself gravitating toward some small weirdo in a few scenes instead. I'm very instinctive like that and I love the challenge of not having a lot of time to create someone who feels real. — Melanie Lynskey

Observing these people narrowly, even when the iron hand of misfortune has shaken them from their unquestioning hold on the world, one sees little trace of religion, still less of a distinctively Christian creed. Their belief in the unseen, so far as it manifests itself at all, seems to be rather of a pagan kind; their moral notions, though held with strong tenacity, seem to have no standard beyond hereditary custom. — George Eliot

Caleb came to his mother's side and helped her to her feet. "Besides, if you rest, then I am free to make love to Jacqueline."
"Caleb!" Jacqueline had been worried she would say the wrong thing. Instead, Caleb had put his foot in it.
But obviously all the cliches she'd ever heard about Italian sons were true. He really could do no wrong, for Mrs. D'Angelo shook her finger at him
but she said indulgently, "You are incorrigible."
"Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want. — Christina Dodd

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade. — Rob Sheffield

Sometimes my life here felt like a cage where I could never escape the pain. At other times it felt like the only firm ground on earth — Jennifer Castle

My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven. — Bob Hicok

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. — Walter Lippmann