Wryer Quotes & Sayings

Do you realize you're talking to yourself?
Yes.
It's good that you know the difference. — Alex Adams

My state of mind regarding the pilfering from which I had been so unexpectedly exonerated did not impel me to frank disclosure; but I hope it had some dregs of good at the bottom of it. — Charles Dickens

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart. — Dusty Springfield

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit. — Bea Arthur

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did. — R. Lee Ermey

It is a tragedy, is it not? The little faces on the milk-cartons
although I can't remember the last time I saw a kid on a milk-carton
and on the walls of freeway rest areas. Have you seen me? they ask. A deeply existential question at the best of times. Have you seen me? — Neil Gaiman

An undertaking beset with danger. — Horace

I always carve myself into what others want me to be. — Ally Condie

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels
Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land. — J. C. Squire

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so. — James Branch Cabell

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. — Frank Herbert