Verdurins Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne: I'd rather be single than in an unfulfilling relationship. — Gemma Burgess

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. — Marian Wright Edelman

It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them. — John Oliver

It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people. — Eddie Redmayne

You just noticed
the disguise that she wears
from day to day?
Well that's too bad.
Because it's too late,
she's gone.
She slipped away. — Amanda Leigh

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. — Emily Oster

Since the heart and behavior are so closely linked, whatever modifies behavior inevitably trains the heart. — Tedd Tripp

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits. — Emily Giffin

I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing. — Anthony Burgess

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war. — John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess Of Aberdeen And Temair

For in this way Swann was kept in the state of painful agitation which had once before been effective in making his interest blossom into love, on the night when he had failed to find Odette at the Verdurins' and had haunted for her all evening. And he did not have (as I had, afterward, at Combray in my childhood) happy days in which to forget the sufferings that would return with the night. For his days, Swann must pass them without Odette; and as he told himself, now and then, to allow so pretty a woman to go out by herself in Paris was just as rash as to leave a case filled with jewels in the middle of the street. In this mood he would scowl furiously at the passers-by, as though they were so many pick-pockets. But their faces - a collective and formless mass - escaped the grasp of his imagination, and so failed to feed the flame of his jealousy. — Marcel Proust

Interesting thing about being rich is once you pay your taxes, you're still rich. — Lewis Black

I don't like to talk about things until I'm on set shooting them because it doesn't feel real. — Ry Russo-Young

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. — David Lilienthal

For he saw in Elizabeth's eyes a kind of darkness; a kind of absence-as if her soul had taken leave, so that compassion and warmth could not interfere. — Seth Grahame-Smith