Uncoined Quotes & Sayings

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. — Mark Twain

Mitt Romney has undergone an extreme makeover, and it ain't pretty. — Julian Castro

It wasn't that pain grew tolerable or the confusion went away. Instead, it simply became familiar. It became a part of you. — Hugh Howey

And while thou
livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and
uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee
right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other
places: for these fellows of infinite tongue, that
can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do
always reason themselves out again. What! a
speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A
good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a
black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow
bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax
hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the
moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it
shines bright and never changes, but keeps his
course truly. If thou would have such a one, take
me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier,
take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love?
speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee — William Shakespeare

The way you might fear a cow sitting down in the middle of the street during rush hour, that's how I fear Canadians. — Maria Semple

I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat
Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address. — Sylvia Plath

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear — Stephen King

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. — Oprah Winfrey

Have you ever noticed there's no twilight in Africa? [...] It must affect the way the psyche develops. I think it makes people here stronger. No gentle twilight to ease them into the darkness. Maybe it's twilight that makes Westerners so sentimental. They can sit on their porches and watch day recede as night approaches. It gives them time to consider what they're going to lose. It's like dying slowly versus being shot. — Tucker Malarkey

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. — Ernest Dimnet

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera. — Luciano Pavarotti

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three. — Laurie Lee

Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches. — Octavio Paz

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. — Rene Descartes

I got used to seeing him waiting for me at the end of corridors, or sitting at the edge of my bed when I fell asleep at night. When he didn't appear, I sometimes found myself looking for him or wondering why he hadn't come, and that frightened me most of all. — Leigh Bardugo