Zwalic Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives. — Paul Engle

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad. — John Ciardi

Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good. — Jean-Louis Gassee

In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones. — John Lee Hooker

- But what could you possibly see in her?
- Everything, I see everything in her, because the stardust that makes her is the same stardust that makes me. — Nikita Gill

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder. — Charles Darwin

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble. — Nora Ephron

Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to be. But in politics and economics, which have taken the place formerly occupied by religion, there is a growing tendency to persecution, which is not by any means confined to one party. — Bertrand Russell

It's like reading a bad newspaper or a bad piece in a magazine.
(on Tom Wolfe) — John Irving

Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions. — Jonathan Stroud

I am only too aware that I am open to Rees's Second Law of Quotation: However sure you are that you have attributed a quotation correctly, an earlier source will be pointed out to you. — Nigel Rees

Silence isn't the enemy. It can bring comfort and clarity and validation. It's a reminder of time for what it is ... presence. — Kim Holden

The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time. — Gertrude Atherton