Aped Quotes

#1. In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and

J.M. Barrie

#2. The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.

Martin Jacques

#3. I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

William Kidd

#4. Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

Annie Dillard

#5. It isn't possible," she said. "But there it is. Look again." In the distance, pinpricks of light arranged into a grid. There, plainly visible on the side of a hill some miles distant: a town, or a village, whose streets were lit up with electricity.

Emily St. John Mandel

#6. Maybe she grew one more in the night and that's why the night sleep was so deep, it was a matching pair of sleeps. -

Helen Oyeyemi

#7. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

Jonathan Nolan

#8. Never," Max said, again ignoring me. "Never did I walk into a room and see her dressed to go out and forget how to breathe like I did when I saw you before we went to The Rooster." I felt my eyes grow wide at this admission and I, too, forgot how to breathe.

Kristen Ashley

#9. Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

Aberjhani

#10. Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:

Ken Keyes Jr.

#11. There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.

Jesse Ventura