Topicmore Quotes & Sayings

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. — Ezra Pound

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
[Interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1956] — Dorothy Parker

Miles, it's only morning and you're already drunk."

"No, I'm not," I weakly protested. "I'm just thirsty. — Rex Pickett

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion. — Truman Capote

When our Paleolithic ancestors began making tools from stone over three million years ago, they had no understanding they were entering into one of the most successful symbiotic relationships this planet has ever seen. From those humble, preverbal beginnings, humans and technology have lifted one another, improved each other's lot, made possible the most amazing partnership imaginable. — Richard Yonck

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. — Joseph Hall

This was what I'd always wanted . . . only now I understood the meaning behind the old curse, "May your every wish be granted. — Heidi Heilig

The clouds in the movies have always seemed more real to me than those on TV. There would be no clouds on Modern Family, that was certain, and I was not sure I could work in a world without clouds. — Andrew Durbin

Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in a candidate. — Eric Sevareid

I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in Manhattan, and so I was a bit of a snob about the other boroughs. — Colson Whitehead

I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out bullshit that grinds you down: how in one instant of pure attention you could draw something inside that made you forever larger — Mary Karr

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon. — Bill Walton

The only thing was, she didn't really want to see the future. What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic that was in the world. — Maggie Stiefvater