Tipping The Velvet Memorable Quotes & Sayings

Who can understand young people these days? — Stephen Rabley

My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot. — Michael Douglas

The notion that one must know history in order to understand the present has a certain justification when applied to the history of events, but not for the structural history of society. Rather, the opposite is the case: to examine the *constitution* of a particular social and economic structure, one has to be already familiar with the *completed* structure. Only then will one know what to look for in history. — Michael Heinrich

Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as a rule, hate literary conversation, and yet at the right moment, with all its powers of feeling, the mind in silence may feel what it owes to literature. — William Hurrell Mallock

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible. — Simon Cowell

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda. — Larry Flynt

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone. — Bob Dylan

Ove has a heart problem ... he begins in an anodyne voice, following this up with a series of terms that no human being with less than ten years of medical training or an entirely unhealthy addiction to certain television series could ever be expected to understand. — Fredrik Backman

The battle-fire had dropped over him, burning him everywhere with its righteous heat, sizzling his sight, frying his synapses and roasting his heart in its holy glow. — Stephen King

Today is not the day you quit. Nor is it the day you cry. Today you know that you have all the passion and wisdom to find that quiet center of solace, serenity and strength necessary to create and sustain an authentic life. — Sarah Ban Breathnach