Toat Quotes & Sayings

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. — Victor Hugo

Here in Russia,, in many cities, people are irritated by Caucasian intrusion. Caucasians come from foreign countries; they are ubiquitous: in markets, shops, hotels, restaurants. They misbehave, and in this sense we have feelings similar to those that the Germans have toward the Turks and the French toward Algerians. — Vladimir Zhirinovsky

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness. — Khalil Gibran

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies. — Plutarch

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body. — Thomas Aquinas

I'm going to put corn and hot sauce on your wiener, and then I'll hit you in the face with it. Hit you in the face with your corny wiener. — Tara Sivec

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances. — Mahatma Gandhi

My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion ... Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat. — Evelyn Waugh

I suppose that's my one little secret, the secret of my success. — Jodie Foster

I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

A mask you ask? Optional I find!
Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all. — Edgar Allan Poe

Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet. — Gerald J. Popek

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. — Stanley Baldwin

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever ... promises break. Hearts break. — Jodi Picoult