Weeklong Def Quotes & Sayings

I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they've changed over the years - how the princesses have become more positive role models right up until 'Frozen.' — Lily James

Knock the T off the word can't. You can do anything - ANYTHING - if you think you can! — Norman Vincent Peale

But in the end it comes down to a matter of respect, and the simplest way that respect is communicated is through tone of voice, and the most corsive tone of voice that a doctor can assume is a dominant tone. — Malcolm Gladwell

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. — Samuel Johnson

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically. — Junot Diaz

Don't you fall for the big hearts and flowers, acting like it's the movies. Bunch of bullshit, he said. Pardon me. You want the guy who'll get your medicine in the middle of the night, even in a blizzard, even after twenty years. You want the guy who shows you every day, shoveling the walk, carrying your groceries, shows you how much he loves you. It's not about talking the talk, Eva. You must have met my father, I said. — Amy Bloom

The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. — Virginia Woolf

This country was founded with the understanding that we shall be allowed to hold slaves. It was a condition of the formation. That shall not change regardless of the rhetoric coming from the North. — Laila Ibrahim

Anytime you start a sentence with I AM, you are creating what you are and what you want to be. — Wayne Dyer

Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong. — Neil Turok

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot. — Avital Ronell