Ultimate Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

I gave my father a heart attack. It was a practical joke. Come on, you push a guy's face in a cake he's got to clean it off. You hit a guy with a water balloon, he's got to dry off. Guy's in the hospital, you get his testicles shaved, he scratches and bleeds for a week ... it's funny ... you're not supposed to have a heart attack, it kills the joke. — Christopher Titus

The memories of the day played in his mind, but this time, his thoughts were of his daughter and the way she'd clung to Katie, her little face buried in Katie's neck.
The last time he'd seen that, he reflected, was when Carly had been alive. — Nicholas Sparks

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay. — Deb Caletti

The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail. — Alice Miller

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!' — Nicki Minaj

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me. — Sheila Heti

Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's prose. — Jonathan Lethem

Looking at Milkman in those nighttime talks, they yearned for something. Some word from him that would rekindle the dream and stop the death they were dying. — Toni Morrison

After Lucca died, everything shut down. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't talk. Somehow they got me on the plane and back home. — Lisa Schroeder

Keep your heart infinitesimally small and sorrow will never spy it, never plunge, never flap away with your heart in her claws. — Emma Donoghue

People always assume that the church's primary business is to teach morality. But it isn't; it's to proclaim grace, forgiveness, and the free party for all. It's to announce the reconciling relationship of God to everybody and to invite them simply to believe it and celebrate it. — Robert Farrar Capon

I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image. — Kimora Lee Simmons

It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any. — Charles Bukowski