Woodier Quotes & Sayings

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable. — Bette Midler

So what about the cats?"
"What about them?"
"The cats he killed. He killed all those cats. Dumped them in the tank."
"So he didn't like cats."
"With a slingshot."
"They were strays. Nobody missed them."
"But you don't kill cats. That's not normal."
Rino shrugged. "Cats are cats. — Richard House

What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself. — Justina Chen

If you don't say it's wrong, then you're telling them you agree. — Kim Harrison

These actions have arcane names like braking, retting, swingling (or scutching), and hackling or heckling, but essentially they involve pounding, stripping, soaking, and otherwise separating the pliant inner fiber, or bast, from its woodier stem. It is striking to think that when we heckle a speaker today we use a term that recalls the preparation of flax from the early Middle Ages. — Bill Bryson

How does a culture that prizes equality of opportunity explain, or indeed accommodate, its persistently marginalized people? — Nancy Isenberg

The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time. — Billy Beane

There was Fiona Fiddick's faculties for both humour and sewing, which enabled her to hide the words FEED ME in an embroidered nosegay of coral peonies which Miss Sheffleton proudly hung upon the classroom wall. — Lyndsay Faye

Loving Vera Dietz was the scariest thing that ever happened to me. — A.S. King

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country. That endowment is being bartered away by our elites in exchange for votes, for profits, or for campaign dollars. — Ann Coulter

What invariably distinguishes a good player from a poor one is their respective address positions or setups. — David Leadbetter