Unelegant Quotes & Sayings

Dust is the parent of a star! — Munia Khan

Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you. — Salman Rushdie

Let it go to create emptiness, to accept the best. — Debasish Mridha

I decided not to answer on the grounds that I might piss someone off. — Laurell K. Hamilton

In this night too, in this night of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were again waiting ...
a murmur of glory and hexameters, of men defending a temple the gods will not save, and of black vessels searching the sea for a beloved isle;
the murmor of the Odysseys and Iliads it was his destiny to sing and leave echoing concavely in the memory of man.
These things we know, but not those he felt descending into the last shade of all. — Jorge Luis Borges

Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life? — Bo Derek

That is my job. What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped-off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when it's needed? What is a parent but someone you trust to keep you safe, and to tell you the truth? — Jodi Picoult

they share this common idea that a rapist is a guy in a ski mask, wielding a knife, who drags women into the bushes. But these undetected rapists don't wear masks or wield knives or drag women into the bushes. So they had absolutely no sense of themselves as rapists and were only too happy to talk about their sexual behaviors. — Jon Krakauer

But we all know the drill: if we eat only candy, if we cultivate our friendships and relationships primarily online, if we forget to walk to town sometimes instead of drive, a crucial part of us will wither. You don't have to read all the books on your list at once. Just pick up the one that grabs you right now. If you don't love it, put it down. Move on. — Jennifer Egan

I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game. — Shelley Long

All great pitches have a few things in common: the founder/team is wicked smart, the idea is big and a breakthrough, and the market is potentially enormous. — Scott Weiss

What people will say about me then - or maybe not say - will be the only thing that finally counts. — Martin Kippenberger

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks. — Judd Gregg

What a gulf between impression and expression! That's our ironic fate - to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse - touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash. — Aldous Huxley