Youby Sketchers Quotes & Sayings

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen. — Domhnall Gleeson

When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed. — Roy Rogers

None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who disregarded the by-laws of society, yet lacked courage to suffer the results of their boldness: to seek the good opinion of the world, and yet secretly to act counter to its idea of decorum, was a very contemptible hypocrisy. — W. Somerset Maugham

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery. — Henri De Lubac

Do you usually show so little self restraint, special agent? Or do you ask all the girls to marry you? — Tate Hallaway

A great book increases my heartbeat as if I'm prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths. — Carmen DeSousa

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way ... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God. — Ignatius Of Antioch

I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden passages that are in it for his own benefit, that they may return with him when the owner shall call for the book again: but in case this excellent book shall be thrown into a corner and no use made of it, it justly provokes the owner to take it away in displeasure.
Funeral of John Upton, Esq — John Flavel

He was telling the students about the hypnotic technique of using quotes in a conversation. An idea is more palatable ... if it comes from someone else. The unconscious thinks in terms of content and structure. If you introduce a pattern with the words, 'My friend was telling me,' the critical part of her mind shuts off. — Neil Strauss

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The wise coach takes all the heat when his players lose, and gives them all the credit when they win. — John Kessel

It wasn't the disappearance of happiness so much as the appearance of sadness. — Alia Yunis