Ticinonews Quotes & Sayings

Give a man a proverb
and he'll muse for a moment.
Teach a man to find the verb in every proverb
and he'll walk in wisdom for a lifetime. — Cameron Semmens

Would you recognize your mother's face in a thousand faces? Clinton waited for Evie to answer.
Of course.
Can you describe her face so well I would recognize her in a thousand faces? He waited again.
I don't think so.
That's the difference. You're familiar with your mother's face. When you know something that way, the connection is straight to your heart. Words are incidental, unnecessary. That's what I mean by spiritual. — Dennis Vickers

A horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums. — George Eliot

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers. — Gloria Allred

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me. — Grandma Moses

He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football — Alex Ferguson

I am thankful for the way I was raised, to be positive. Even when times have gotten rough I have always tried to look on the bright side. Even when I was put down, yelled at and made feel insignificant, I still thought things were alright. I did realize when enough is enough. — Angela Merkel

Shakespeare is universal. — Harold Bloom

Heard once that in dire times when you need a sign, that's when they appear. — Drake

First off, what the hell kind of name is that?
Wow, her parents were pretentious naming their daughter Temperance!
What the actual fuck? — Joanne McClean

The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked down the dead streets without looking back, he no longer felt that he was leaving the next morning but that he had gone away many years before with the irrevocable determination never to return. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez