Toasties Slippers Quotes & Sayings

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. — Maria Mitchell

The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper. In other words, that she's free. Not wholly free. Never wholly free. Maybe very partially. Maybe only in this one act, this sitting for a snatched moment being a woman writing, fishing the mind's lake. But in this, responsible; in this autonomous; in this free.
(- from The Fisherwoman's Daughter) — Ursula K. Le Guin

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half. — Bum Phillips

I came across time for you, Sarah. I love you. I always have. Kyle Reese in The Terminator — James Cameron

No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier. — Austen Chamberlain

It's not what you are in Hollywood - it's what people think you are. — Robert Stack

Olivia," he sighed as he held her tight against him. "I like the way you leap."
For once her laughter was free and easy. "And I like the way you catch me when I land. — Marie Force

You know how it is- you get used to something, people rely on you, one day you wake up and you can't tell Tuesday from Thursday. You're doing the same boring stuff. — Mitch Albom

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane. — Tom Waits

Damian: How many are above me?

Tyler: Seven.

Damian: Great. Below?

Tyler: Two. Watch yourself. They've got spears.

Damian: Great. i love spears. — Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

I SAY "SORRY" A LOT. When I am running late. When I am navigating the streets of New York. When I interrupt someone. I say, "Sorry, sorry, sorry," in one long stream. The sentence becomes "Sorrysorrysorry" and it's said really fast, as if even the act of apologizing is something to apologize for. But this doesn't mean I am a pushover. It doesn't mean I am afraid of conflict or don't know how to stand up for myself. I am getting to a place right in the middle where I feel good about exactly how much I apologize. It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for. It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate. I am still learning the right balance. — Amy Poehler

We entered a synagogue which was packed with the greatest stinking bunch of humanity I have ever seen. Either these Displaced Persons never had any sense of decency or else they lost it all during their period of internment by the Germans ... My personal opinion is that no people could have sunk to the level of degradation these have reached in the short space of four years. — George S. Patton

Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say — Dante Alighieri

Smile more.
Laugh more.
Love more.
Shine more. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Why did some of the impoverished children in Indonesia create a happy playtime with only some sticks and string, while others sat bored and sullen? — Shawn Achor