Umistakable Quotes & Sayings

None of us came here for the bells and whistles. It's [for] the personnel. These meetings? Like the one where you got your ass kicked? That's what makes you a better doctor. That's all that matters. — Gato Villanueva

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing. — Paul McCartney

There's a lot of madness in New Zealand because it's a mean and isolated little country. Anyone who feels too much or radiates extremity gets very lonely. — Chris Kraus

it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, — Charles Dickens

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it. — Winston Churchill

Lord John, do stop gaping. A woman can possess a mind. If men gave more countenance to what ladies thought, the world would be a much more prosperous place. — Elizabeth Boyle

My Lord does not want to know what I have done for Him. He just wants to know how I am. If he hears from me that I am happy, then he himself becomes exceedingly happy. In umistakable terms He tells me that my happiness is His real and only Satisfaction. — Sri Chinmoy

I remember coming home from school - I couldn't wait to get to the piano so I could play and practice. — McCoy Tyner

Oh, I should probably set a few ground rules before we do this."
"Oh?" I turn at the waist and look at him curiously. "What kind of ground rules?"
He smiles.
"Well, number one: my car, my stereo; I'm sure I don't need to elaborate on that. — J.A. Redmerski

I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea of writing seven days a week, I suppose. Getting some work done early in the morning. But ideally I would love to take one day a week off. — Brad Listi

the American essayist Lewis Thomas on the semicolon: The semicolon tells you that there is still some question about the preceding full sentence; something needs to be added [ . . .] The period [or full stop] tells you that that is that; if you didn't get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along. But with the semicolon there you get a pleasant feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; read on; it will get clearer. The Medusa and the Snail, 1979 — Lynne Truss

Tis the curse of a woman of influence that she must always be reckoned unvirtuous. — Susanna Kearsley

We're all given terrible trials sometimes, things that we think will break our spirit and kill us, and they make us stronger in the end. They seem like the cruelest blows, but in a funny way they're like compliments from God. — Danielle Steel