Undecipherable Def Quotes & Sayings

Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world. — George Catlin

I wish I could," laughed the vampire. "How positively delightful. I should like to pass through all manner of different keyholes and feel the tickle of their peculiar shapes. No." He shook his head. "That is, how would you say today ... bullshit? — Anne Rice

He found her beautiful, if a bit strange and sour. It was something in the way that her eyes sparked when she looked at something lovely in the landscape. He couldn't understand it. — Sarah J. Maas

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life. — Julie Benz

Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian. — David Foster Wallace

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God. — Seamus Heaney

Together, we will prevail, and we will be free. — Aimee Carter

We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there - there you could look at a thing monstrous and free. It was unearthly, and the men were - No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion — Joseph Conrad

I seem to feel ashamed of going out and getting merry - I find it oddly humiliating - but I'm quite happy to sit here like some dipsomaniac and become maudlin. For me, that is cool behaviour. Once you realise you're going to be on your own for the next few decades, it seems as pleasurable a way as any to pass the years. — Dave Franklin

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news. — Ted Turner

Every election I have to hold my nose to vote. — Drew Carey

London created the Underground, and the Underground created London. — John Lanchester

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars! — James Elroy Flecker

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of the population falls on the occupiers. — Kofi Annan