Versifications Quotes & Sayings

If you have 8-foot ceilings, you'll want a low sofa, which gives the impression that the ceiling is taller than it is. In a room with a high ceiling, you want a high-back sofa to be a weighty presence that can hold up to the room. — David Easton

The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds — Nelson Mandela

My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing. — Zach Galifianakis

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

A tattered copy of Johnson's large Dictionary was a great delight to me, on account of the specimens of English versifications which I found in the Introduction. I learned them as if they were so many poems. I used to keep this old volume close to my pillow; and I amused myself when I awoke in the morning by reciting its jingling contrasts of iambic and trochaic and dactylic metre, and thinking what a charming occupation it must be to "make up" verses. — Lucy Larcom

There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, "It's a good script," I'll do it. I don't plan. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out. — Anthony Hopkins

I've been passionate about two things in my life. One was Christina Alibrandi. The other is Josephine Alibrandi. — Melina Marchetta

When we removed your son, we replaced him with nothing! — Julius Malema

What were promises, anyway, when made to the dying? — Marissa Meyer

Carpetbaggers with no culture or moral compass, enabled and empowered with new money. — Eddie Huang

The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows. — William James

Their little universe is very young, and its god is still a child. But it is too soon to judge
them; when We return in the Last Days, We will consider what should be saved. — Arthur C. Clarke

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware. — Anne Lamott

I believe this is your facade. — Skye Callahan