Understory Layer Quotes & Sayings

I have lived temperately ... I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend. — Thomas Jefferson

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest. — Tayari Jones

Tied one on last night. Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was on the casino floor. — George Lopez

The cave floor rumbled. A large stone emerged from the dirt-a smooth, oval rock exactly the same size and weight as a baby god ... She wrapped the stone in swaddling clothes and gave the real baby Zeus to the nymphs to take care of ... She marched right up to King Cannibal and shouted, This is the best baby yet! A fine little boy named, uh, Rocky! — Rick Riordan

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. — Joni Mitchell

The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know? — Billy Preston

My father was a scientist, a scholar, and a Virginia gentleman, — Stephanie Dray

I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!' — Emilia Clarke

I don't know how I ever lived before
You are my life, my destiny
Oh my darling, I love you so
You mean everything to me — Neil Sedaka

The complete truth, McKenzie, is I'd do anything for you, but you ask for nothing. You won't confide in me. You won't rely on me. You're so preoccupied trying to decide if you can trust your feelings that you won't consider giving in to them. — Sandy Williams

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply. — Wesley Snipes

Mary Sibley: So, love is to a woman what war is to a man: the most deadly thing they'll do. Only a fool runs quickly to war or love. — Salem

I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble's neck. "Good boy," I said. "Trusty steed. — Laura Anderson Kurk