Unrivalld Quotes & Sayings

If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm. — Kinky Friedman

Preppy clothes are built to last, since they certainly won't go out of style. — Lisa Birnbach

You got to hold still, I thought. Perfectly still. I concentrated, focused, felt my arms become rigid, stern and strong. I pulled back the trigger slowly, squeezing steadily. The bottle exploded, water shooting out in a wide fine spray. 'Goddamn!' Anne shouted. She was staring at me like I had stared at her earlier, her whole face open with pride and delight. Sexy, yeah. I pointed the barrel at the sky and let my mouth widen into a smile. 'Goddamn,' I said, and meant it with all my heart. — Dorothy Allison

Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann

You're such a young king. I barely remember being your age."
"Then clearly we're talking about how old you are, not how young I am. — Jennifer A. Nielsen

She says I owe her."
"And you always pay your debts? What kind of craziness is that?"
"Some people would say it's honorable."
"Some people are stupid. — Gena Showalter

If anybody ever called our number, it would be picked up in less than 2 rings with a friendly voice answering, "CD Baby." From 7 am to 10 pm, there was always somebody to pick up a call in 2 rings. No voice mail system; no routing to different departments. We treated our customers like our best friends. You don't route your best friend's call to an automated system! — Derek Sivers

But to guide nations in the way of Truth
By saving Doctrine, and from error lead
To know, and knowing worship God aright,
Is yet more knightly, this attracts the Soul,
Governs the inner man, the nobler part,
That other o'er the body only reigns,
And oft by force, which to a generous mind
so reigning can be no sincere delight. — John Milton

I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum. — Warren Buffett

The impulse to lie, to continue to wallow in secrets as he had for years, was only the faintest whisper now, a nagging sense of stepping too far on an uncharted path, easily overridden by need to tell her. If he couldn't tell her, at least he could find some comfort in confidence. — Anthony Ryan

He recognized that he was feeling something he head never experienced before: the desire to live in one place forever. — Paulo Coelho

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that. — Brooklyn Sudano

Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last. — Rene Descartes