Virtuously Pronounce Quotes & Sayings

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well. — Jonathan Raban

My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of the male directors wanted to blow things up so there was like an open area for somebody who wanted to direct women movies, chick flicks, whatever you ... I don't call them chick flicks. — Garry Marshall

The spirit cannot exist in a sealed void. It will eventually devour itself or waste away. — T.A. Miles

Easy for you to say," Polly said. "You've lived here all your life and stayed under the radar. No one points at you."
"Sometimes small children point at my butt," Aunt Rhea said. "But that's just on account of all the fried chicken. — Kathy Hepinstall

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery. — Sophie Swetchine

They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and I guess for some, that's true. After all, pain makes you flinch. Your fingers form a fist, and that fist can become tighter and harder with each indignity suffered. Eventually, that fist might even get strong enough to punch down walls. But if you need your hand for something other than violence, if you want to unfurl those fingers to caress a loved one or comfort someone in need, and can't, well then, you're broken. — Wayne Gladstone

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists. — Ian McEwan