Verbosity Define Quotes & Sayings

They contain no matter," I continue, "and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people's minds. — Robert M. Pirsig

Because it is illegal to talk to a stranger on a train, it can sometimes be confusing when someone stands on your foot or hits you with their briefcase and then fails to say sorry. Which is why I have decided to carry an air horn with me at all times, and when someone stands on my foot I will set it off in their face and then go back to reading my paper. I imagine this will make people want to avoid standing on my feet, but if I've paid good money for the air horn, I'll want to use it, so I'll wear massive clown-shoes while travelling. I'll also wear a red nose and a wig.
Essentially, I really want to get into clowning. — Danny Wallace

That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to instill a democracy in Iraq which will be an example and perhaps force other nations in that region to move in the same direction. — John McCain

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity. — Cornel West

When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home. — Howard G. Hendricks

If our relationships are not all about sex, then we must not make homosexuality a matter of concern. — M.F. Moonzajer

You're not trying to pick up a girl?"
"I wasn't. — Cora Carmack

I must stop thinking. I'll pretend that everything's all right and then everything will be. — Paulo Coelho

Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads. What — Henry David Thoreau

Jared's lips were suddenly at my ear. "The only vampire who'll be manhandling you tonight is me."
"If I let you."
"You get such satisfaction out of teasing me, don't you?"
"I still maintain that you like it. — Suzanne Wright

Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys. — Ben Jonson