Westermeyer Receiver Quotes & Sayings

Once, I discovered it propped up on my sister's pillow, its neck wrapped in one of our mother's best linen dishtowels. Cookie fragments on dolls' plates were laid out around it, mixed with berries from the prickly-berry hedge, like offerings made to appease an idol. It was wearing a chaplet woven of carrot fronds and marigolds that my sister and Leonie had picked in the garden. The flowers were wilted, the garland was lopsided; the effect was astonishingly depraved, as if a debauched Roman emperor had arrived on the scene and had hacked off his own body in a maiden's chamber as the ultimate sexual thrill. — Margaret Atwood

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right. — Jaron Lanier

It is easy to tie someone with love, but it takes a lifetime to untie the knot of love. — Debasish Mridha

The only thing 'championship' about Wimbledon is its prestige. — John McEnroe

You get greatness out of people by expecting it. — John Stahl-Wert

There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real. — Prabal Gurung

Twitter needs to continue being a good listener and recognize that the service has been redefined by lots of people, tweet by tweet, but also come up with its own priorities. — Dick Costolo

Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction. — Evelyn Waugh

If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy. — Isaac Babel

Upon learning of Sebastian's success with the commissioner, Cam Rohan remarked admiringly, "That was a spruce trick, my lord. I'm beginning to think you can persuade anyone to do nearly anything."
Sebastian grinned and glanced at Evie, who was sitting nearby. "I should think Lady St. Vincent is proof of that," he said. — Lisa Kleypas

You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole. — Salman Rushdie

Conservatives are now largely fighting rearguard actions. They are trying to reassemble a world that never really existed quite as they imagine it (and to the extent that it did, it existed at the expense of all the people - the vast majority of us - forced to disappear, into the closet, the kitchen, segregated space, invisibility and silence). Thanks — Rebecca Solnit

Sometimes we hate the things we're afraid of. — R.J. Palacio

Truth be told, even with Sophronia's arm muscles, vampires could hurl her a great deal farther than Sophronia could hurl vampires. A great tragedy of life, no doubt. The — Gail Carriger

That's the way of every human catastrophe. The douchebag is nearly indestructible. — Rick Yancey