Wiffy Bog Quotes & Sayings

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am different. And I don't understand exactly how. And I don't understand just why. — Ellen Hopkins

You can raise her up a lady but there's one thing you just can't avoid ... — Trace Adkins

My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water. — Rebecca Gayheart

There's some instinctive attraction that draws you, as a writer, to your subject. And the attraction usually has to do with some primal personal thing that, of course, you have no idea about. In the end, the piece always comes down to the one or two sentences you struggle over. The sentences where you try to say explicitly what it is that the two of you, subject and writer, have in common. Those are the sentences that you just bang your head against the wall over until you get them right. It's very hard to make that distillation but that is actually what your job is. Without trying to pin the person like a butterfly to the wall, to sum it up. If I can do that, then I feel satisfied. To give the subject a reality in the form of a sentence that is like a piece of rock crystal or a prism. — Judith Thurman

Growing up, before my mom would cook our rice, she would rinse the rice out and pour it out three times. And after the fourth pour, she'd pour it into a little bowl, and she'd rinse her face with that. It's known to help whiten the skin and nourish it because essentially inside the water you have all the essential nutrients from the rice. — Michelle Phan

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union. — William S. Burroughs

A gift is something you can hold in your hand and say, "Look, he was thinking of me," or, "She remembered me." You must be thinking of someone to give him a gift. The gift itself is a symbol of that thought. It doesn't matter whether it costs money. — Gary Chapman

Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender. — Garrison Keillor

I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be. — Ed Belfour

Quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while. — Lisa Wingate

It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I couldn't ask her anything. There wasn't a single question to which I'd get the answer I wanted. — Amy Bloom