Yallstore Quotes & Sayings

The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time. — Robert Benchley

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments. — Gordon B. Hinckley

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Anyhow, isn't it a bit wrong to think happiness is all smooth and serene. Isn't it mostly a great energetic struggle - you against the universe - a great whopping opponent, with the referee in its pocket? — Margaret Mahy

Terrorism is you winning hearts and minds of people. — Imran Khan

And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdom. — Anonymous

Poetry puts language in a state of emergence, in which life becomes manifest through its vivacity. These linguistic impulses, which stand out from the ordinary rank of pragmatic language, are miniatures of the vital impulse. A micro-Bergsonism that abandoned the thesis of language-as-instrument in favor of the thesis of language-as-reality would find in poetry numerous documents of the intense life of language. — Gaston Bachelard

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other. — William Blackstone

She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but when Justine and Siobhan and Francesca use his body so shamelessly he doesn't feel the need to turn his head and press his mouth against their hair. — Melina Marchetta

The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent. — Dorothy Malone

It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption. — Lauren Mayberry

Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Ash? Get bent and die. — L.J.Smith

We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard. — John F. Kennedy