Untranslatables Quotes & Sayings

Did he ever look at Lance Scott the way he looks at me? Did he ever just hold him and call him beautiful when he thought Lance was asleep and couldn't hear him? Did he whisper in Lance's ear how much he loved waking up each morning in his arms? Or falling asleep next to him each night? — Candi Kay

I don't understand this whole Twitter, Facebook stuff. I don't get it. Make a phone call. Talk to somebody. — James Avery

Women, I learned, adapted.
At first..they seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers. Gradually, though, I noticed how supple their lives were beneath the surface. Then I realized it was this flexibility that enabled them to survive ... that sooner or later, by choice or by chance, most women faced the task of adapting to a future on their own. When at my most optimistic, I thought of it as independence; in darker moods, as survival. Either way women had to do it. — Alice Steinbach

I couldn't be certain, but I think Rose swore in Russian. — Richelle Mead

I will sleep all day; I love staying in bed with my dog and reading and not getting up and checking my phone. And that gets me into trouble because I have things to do, and that's not very productive. — Brittany Snow

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq. — Alcee Hastings

When the meaning is unclear there is no meaning. — Marty Rubin

I didn't feel like there was anything incompatible with my love of gangster rap and my spiritual aspirations. — Noah Levine

The truth is always multiplex. — Samuel R. Delany

Time is the best preserver of righteous men. — Pindar

Some people were offended by a show about cougars. — Courteney Cox

Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump. — Vic Toews

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive. — John F. Kennedy

I hope the string and clapper arrangement he calls a mind has been permanently put out of action. — Dorothy Dunnett

All I can say is, it's a good thing we didn't win the revolution [laughter]. We would've ended up with people like Abie Hoffman and Eldridge Cleaver at the helm; we would've been in big trouble. Big trouble. It would've been such a Stalinist purge ... All those people that were the top names in those movements back then were all egotistical assholes, it turned out, every single one of them [laughter]. — Robert Crumb