Whomise Quotes & Sayings

Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person. — Tim Heidecker

It can be hard on a man, to face a situation that seems hopeless at the outset," he continued, steadily. "But your die was cast, and you have little choice but accept the situation as it is, and not as you wish it would be. You must act, though every part of you wants to freeze up or flee. What you do at the beginning is critical. — Terry Mancour

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

She wrote her stories, and they were read and enjoyed - or so Lenore claimed - by many. Josephine enjoyed quiet society and music and books and gardening. — Elizabeth Hunter

It's the color scheme of that first afternoon - that white panorama full of potential, that threshold white - that Marina understands as whomise. And that's what she's trying to recreate now, a year and a bit later, with a series of expensive light bulbs. 'White light,' the packaging promised. She fits them one by one throughout the house, and unbeknown to her, choreographs the slow dance of light-over-puddle in the passageway. — Laia Jufresa

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about. — Jonathan Shapiro

What's been coming to Becca, since all this began, is this: real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells schedules coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you won't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face. — Tana French

The grief hits her hard one day. the way it can't be controlled. The way that yesterday can be good and so can the day before, and so can the week and fortnight before that, but then today comes and she's back to zero. How she can't type words into her computer or even press the in-box for her mail. The effort it takes to walk. How words can't form in her mouth and how her blood feels paralyzed. — Melina Marchetta

Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together. — Elizabeth Hardwick

You may be imperfect according to the world, but you're perfect in my world. — Courtney Lane

Regret swallows broken men whole. Acceptance builds them anew. — Sarah Noffke

When the wind is at your back, you don't even notice it
But when it is blowing in your face, you become very aware of it's presence.
That's how it is with privilege:
When you have it, you don't even notice it
When you don't have it - you know. — Shara

We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers. — Richard Dean Anderson

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. — George Osborne

People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability. — Harriet Lerner

I've also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes. — Gurbaksh Chahal