Treabhair Quotes & Sayings

I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways. — Anne Frank

I don't read all the junk. I joke if I did, I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. But, Sometimes the comments over the top - really ugly. Many of them are critical of my looks, like the one that criticized my "thunder thighs." I get that a lot. Some of the tweets are too vulgar to repeat. — Gretchen Carlson

The neighbourhood is a place of ... intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds. — Nadeem Aslam

A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off. — Gillian Flynn

Motivational speaking is the art of telling people what they have been told before ... without them noticing. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe. — Tony Evans

Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards. — Greg Louganis

Overhead, an enemy plane had been dragging, drumming slowly round in the pool of night, drawing up bursts of gunfire
nosing, pausing, turning, fascinated to the point for its intent. The barrage banged, coughed, retched; in here the lights in the mirrors rocked. Now down a shaft of anticipating silence the bomb swung whistling. With the shock of detonation, still to be heard, four walls of in here yawped in then bellied out; bottles danced on glass; a distortion ran through the view. The detonation dulled off into the cataracting roar of a split building:
direct hit,
somewhere else. — Elizabeth Bowen

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there. — Ben Okri

I began drinking because the thought that I was drinking gave me a kind of identity: each time I poured myself a brandy in the deserted afternoon I could say to myself 'I am a woman who drinks. — Penelope Mortimer

Battles waged in daylight are fought by soldiers. Battles waged at night are fought by savages. — Lance Conrad

The charming shall inherit the Earth. — Simon Doonan

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily. — Victoria Woodhull

I am a very nerdy guy. I understand that it's easier to cast me as a nerdy guy than an action star - although I would love to be an action star! — Kumail Nanjiani

As a child, I was constantly being sent on playdates with other kids - the shrinks insisted I interact with cohorts. That's what my meeting with Lyle was like: those first loose, horrible ten minutes, when the grown-ups have left, and neither kid knows what the other one wants, so you stand there, near the TV they've told you to keep off, fiddling with the antenna. — Gillian Flynn