Zojka Borkowska Quotes & Sayings

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress? — Abraham Lincoln

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. — Oliver Herford

It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did. — Jessica Lange

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes. — Charlie Kaufman

Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God. — Swami Vivekananda

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home. — Sylvia Earle

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning. — Nick Cave

This is all lie, she want to say to them. The dead are not hovering nearby to knock politely at teacups and tabletops and whisper through billowing curtains. — Erin Morgenstern

UCL made provision for women to study science. Skinner told Humphry that a good Fabian should consider his daughters' education as seriously as his sons'. Humphry said that Dorothy - and Griselda - were still only little girls. Hardly, said Skinner, smiling at the two serious young faces. Hardly. They would be young women any moment, he could see. His look made Dorothy feel unexpectedly heated, on her skin, and also inside her. She wriggled a little and sat straighter. Griselda said she didn't think her parents saw any need for her to be educated. Skinner said, it should be enough that she wanted to be educated. — A.S. Byatt

Dogs are the best example of a being who doesn't need to lie to protect someone's pride. — Ammiel Josiah Monterde.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up. — Margaret Atwood

It was full of dead Prussian Guards, big men, and dead Royal Welch Fusiliers and South Wales Borderers, little men. Not a single tree in the wood remained unbroken. — Phil Carradice

I was midway down to the first floor when it finally hit me: I had just told the alpha of all shapeshifters that hell would freeze over before I got into his bed. Not only had I just kissed any cooperation from the Pack good-bye, but I had also challenged him. Again. I stopped and hit my head a few times on the wall. Keep your mouth shut, stupid.
Derek appeared at the bottom of the stairway. It went that well, huh? — Ilona Andrews