Tuppenny Hapenny Quotes & Sayings

In Bulgaria, they use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different from ours. You can't sound the words out, so you can't read street signs or packages in the grocery store! You have to rely on pictures and guesses. — Katherine McNamara

You know I can't do that. Pete's probably already spent a ton of money. He's a nice guy. I can't
just bail
"
Pete's not as nice as you think," Daniel grumbled.
I laughed. "Are you jealous? Pete's just a friend
"
Daniel grabbed me by the hips. "Of course I'm jealous, Gracie. You just told me that you love me
but you are going out with another guy. But this is more important than my jealousy. If I'm
staying here, then you have to stay in. I've got enough to keep my eye on. I can't have you out
there. Not tonight. — Bree Despain

The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field. — Stan Musial

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. — Samuel Johnson

Why should we always try to be true to our natural selves? What if our natural selves are assholes? Stalin was true to himself — A. J. Jacobs

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off. — Mary Badham

And at that moment, Thibaut knew he was a murderer. He had murdered his brother that night; he had taken away his brother's soul. — C. JoyBell C.

I passed by General Zia's tomb and knew that I never would have become Muslim if I was raised in this country [Pakistan]. As a rebellious American adolescent, I had chosen Islam because it was the religion of Malcolm X, a language of resistance against unjust power. But in Pakistan, Islam was the unjust power, or at least part of what kept the machine running. Pakistan's Islam was guilty of everything for which I had rebelled against Reagen-Falwaell Christianity of America. — Michael Muhammad Knight

What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time.- Widdershins — Charles De Lint

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer. — Kathleen Hanna

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done. — Chuck Schumer

I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street. — Jojo Moyes