Xphity Quotes & Sayings

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw. — Nigel Rees

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends. — Lorna Luft

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on? — Vanna Bonta

They was this rich fella, an he makes like he's poor, an they's this rich girl, an she purtends like she's poor too, an' they meet in a hamburg' stan'
Why?
I don't know why-that's how it was.
Why'd they purtend like they's poor?
Well, they're tired of bein' rich.
Horseshit!
You want to hear this, or not?
Well, go on then. Sure, I wanta hear it, but if I was rich, if I was rich I'd get so many pork chops-I'd cord 'em up aroun' me like wood, an' I'd eat my way out. Go on. — John Steinbeck

Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be. — John Smith

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?"
"I notice when you're not. Does that count? — Melina Marchetta

Hiding in relative comfort, I remember to be terrified. — Rae Carson

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers. — John Reader

Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon. — William Peter Hamilton

Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it. Molded by it. — Helen Keller