Ungentrified Quotes & Sayings

Elspeth stood in the sun, letting it pour through her, watching the Kitten sleep. I want you. Elspeth felt depressed. She had never thought of herself as someone who would kill a beautiful white kitten while it napped. But apparently she was that sort of person. Don't you worry, Kitten. I'll put you right back. — Audrey Niffenegger

At the North Carolina border, the dull landscape ended abruptly, as if by decree. Suddenly the countryside rose and fell in majestic undulations, full of creeping thickets of laurel, rhododendron and palmetto. — Bill Bryson

Faith is a powerful force, but you must believe in order to reap its benefits. — Andrew Wommack

There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question,
but it's possible to extract some wisdom from the suffering of past generations of parents.
Does the book you're reading contradict itself repeatedly,
require you to override all your parental instincts,
or send you into a panic over your own inadequacy?
If so, burn it. — Libby Copeland

You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years. — Nas

Vermont is a country unto itself. — Pearl S. Buck

Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food
and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either. — Charles Caleb Colton

I am so happy, each and every day that I come to set. Some days, I'll be there 12 hours, and it feels like five minutes have gone by. — Fiona Gubelmann

patriarch over all of the land's inhabitants. Hillel's appointment ushers in an exciting period of creativity in developing the Oral Law, alongside the preservation of ancient traditions. Together, these two ideals serve as Hillel's guiding light: he expounds based on the rules of logic and simultaneously apprentices under the — Binyamin Lau

I watch way too much C-SPAN. — Michael Moore

People are motivated by three things, Rachel. Love ... " A red marker clattered in with the rest. "Revenge ... " A black one landed next to it. "And power," she finished, tossing in a green one. "Trent has enough money to buy all three."
"You forgot one," I said, wondering if I should just keep my mouth shut. "Family. — Kim Harrison

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game. — Enos Slaughter

Don't wish, Miss Tick had said. Do things. — Terry Pratchett

The dumbest thing one could ever do is to hold on to something that is slippery — Angel Phetheni

I would have followed Derek to the edge of the world, if he had wanted me to. And then perhaps we would have had to hold hands because it must be quite windy at the edge of the world. — Phoebe Stone