Zahm House Quotes & Sayings

His system is a combination of ferocious blows, holds and throws, adapted from Japanese bayonet tactics, ju-jitsu, Chinese boxing, Sikh wrestling, French wrestling and Cornish collar-and-elbow wrestling, plus expert knowledge of hip-shooting, knife fighting and use of the Tommy gun and hand grenade. — Giles Milton

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me. — Novak Djokovic

Tears blurred her vision as she leaned over him. His mouth was surely made for smiling. For laughing. For kissing. Grief welled up along with the feeling that he might never do any of those things again.
She closed her eyes and pressed her lips to his. They were cool and unresponsive.
Then they parted.
She jerked back, saw his eyes flutter open.
"Don't stop now," he whispered. — Elena Greene

If freedom is the basis of life, then love is the basis of real freedom, the capacity to love without bonds is the freedom of the highest order. — Vivek Mehta

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing. — Emma McLaughlin

Understand. I understand. She was only dimly aware that it wasn't Hezekiah holding her, but his — Lynn Austin

They deserve forgiveness. Everyone does. — Dana Reinhardt

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved. — Carrot Top

Critics can neither build nor explore. All they do, really, is say yes or no - and complicate it. — Mark Helprin

Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship? — H. P. Blavatsky

So Wise Man summ'ned Crow an' say-soed him these words: Fly across the crazed'n'jiffyin' ocean to the Mighty Volcano, an' on it's foresty slopes, find a long stick. Pick up that stick in your beak an' fl into that Mighty Volcano's mouth an' dip it in the lake o' flames what bubble'n'spit in that fiery place. Then bring the burnin' stick back here to Panama so humans'll mem'ry fire once more an' mem'ry back its makin — David Mitchell

you ever stop believing in yourself, you must know that all you have to DO is lean on your faith and not your own human understanding and God will pull you through the rest of the way! — Monique Hall

Everything must be like something, so what is this ike? — E. M. Forster

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it. — Agnes Repplier