Wistfully Def Quotes & Sayings

Sometime soon someone is going to walk into your life, and you'll understand just why your previous relationships didn't work out. — Steven Aitchison

Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it's the latest scoop. But that's alright girls, you can call it goop. — Elvis Presley

I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades. — Jonathan Turley

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be. — Abraham Maslow

(The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years. — Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel. — Anita Shreve

It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all. — J.D. Salinger

A man is what he is on his knees, and no more. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

I wanted to belong to someone, and for someone to belong to me. — R.K. Lilley

Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters. — Honore De Balzac

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life. — Hannah Simone

There is some evidence that dreaming is necessary. When people or other mammals are deprived of REM sleep (by awakening them as soon as the characteristic REM and EEG dream patterns emerge), the number of initiations of the dream state per night goes up, and, in severe cases, daytime hallucinations-that is, waking dreams-occur. — Carl Sagan

It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction. — Henry David Thoreau