Upharsin Define Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth. — Joseph Campbell

Rights are more reliable than the kindness of someone who has absolute power over you. — Rebecca Solnit

No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader. — Adam Carolla

The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama. — Rashers Tierney

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. — Aesop

Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants. — C. Wagner

Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando? — Larry The Cable Guy

Luckily, the forest was so dense that the two escaped without injury, though one of the men peed in his pants. — Liu Cixin

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know. — Maxim Gorky

Cabel: Um, Janie?
Janie: Yesss, Cabel?
Cabel: I have another lie to confess.
Janie: Oh, dear. What is it?
Cabel: I do, actually, know what my GPA is.
Janie: And?
Cabel: And. I have a full-ride scholarship.
Cabel is pushed violently from the beanbag chair. And pounced upon. And told, repeatedly, what a bastard he is.
Janie is told that she will most certainly get a scholarship too, with her grades. Unless she plays hooky with drug dealers. — Lisa McMann

You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there's ownership of an emotional or metaphysical kind - when a book speaks so powerfully to us that we feel it's ours exclusively: that it exists just tor us. People we meet sometimes have this effect too; they look into our eyes, and speak in a hushed, intimate voice, and make us feel we're uniquely important to them - before going on to do the same to someone else. In life, we call these people flirts. The best books are flirtatious, too, since they seem to be ours alone when in reality they're anyone's. — Blake Morrison

A really good poem is full of music. — Eric Whitacre