Wooden Decorative Quotes & Sayings

It occurred to Mo that he didn't have any pictures of himself as a boy. Every photo he owned, every memento of his life, was from after. It was as if he had been born the day he left. He had gone out from here and invented himself. — Leonard Pitts Jr.

I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard. — Zoe Bell

You don't propose marriage after one date. You don't decide on a career after one article or class session. You don't cast your vote based on one opinion of the candidate in question. Stories, essays, novels, and memoirs all deserve to be, indeed have to be read multiple times. Every writer worth his or her salt knows that writing is rewriting. Every reader should know the same thing about understanding text: that is, real reading is rereading. — Dave Eggers

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. — Nicolaus Copernicus

What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret. — Michel Foucault

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores. — Larry Norman

Hence (its way) is near to (that of) the Tao. — Lao-Tzu

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever. — Nicholas Sparks

Trust me, Wainwright, ninety-nine times out of a hundred you can bet the bank that I'm serious."
"What about the one time when you're not?"
"I'm asleep. — Jayne Ann Krentz

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world. — Bob Iger

If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it. — Fritz Machlup

You need anything we're only an hour away, give or take, honey. You call. We'll help you hide the body. — Sean Michael