Trhrashed Quotes & Sayings

You, reader, are alive today, reading this, because someone once adequately policed your mouth exploring. — Maggie Nelson

fond of people to stay in the field with the sheep. Well, I've got news for you about people, you big stupid — Jean Gill

When we'd gone to Disneyland, the tree house had been my favorite thing in the whole park. If only I'd had no parents watching my every move, if only I'd been a happy, carefree orphan, I'd have hidden under the player piano until everything closed, and then taken up residence there. — Karen Joy Fowler

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up. — Billy Sunday

The evening had turned sweet and blue. — Alice Hoffman

Kagan hypothesized that infants born with an especially excitable amygdala would wiggle and howl when shown unfamiliar objects and grow up to be children who were more likely to feel vigilant whhen meeting new people. The four month olds who trhrashed their arms like punk rockers did so not because they were extroverts in the making, but because their little bodies reacted strongly
they were high-reactive to new sights, sounds and smells. The quiet infants were silent not because they were future introverts, just the opposite, but because they had nervous systems that were unmoved by novelty. — Susan Cain

Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties. — John O. Brennan

The domestic cat is a bit of a contradiction. It freely accepts human friendship while never allowing even the most contented life to dim its sense of who it is and what it is capable of. — Ellen Dugan

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia. — Romesh Gunesekera

Beauty knows no time', he said softly, rising, and kissing her hand. — Jude Deveraux

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy. — Bryant McGill

Live life with grace, there is no return from the grave. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing. — Parminder Nagra

I have learned that I am a one-woman man. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

he jumped in under the running water, squeaked as if in ecstasy, bent his legs to get deeper, and whirred his wings like an egg beater in high gear. The spray flew several meters, soaking the floor and counters near the sink. Then he jumped out dripping wet and fluttered back into the cage to shake vigorously and preen until dry. — Bernd Heinrich

I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and their characters interwoven, they do end up together somehow. — Imtiaz Ali