Aspirating Quotes

#1. Dead?' repeated the old woman in the dressing gown. She sounded offended. 'Has hif,' she said, grandly aspirating each aitch as if that were the only way to convey the gravity of her words. 'Has hif han 'Empstock would hever do hanything so . . . common . . .

Neil Gaiman

#2. Hindsight is pointless, Arnuff," said the other man in the room, who was equally as old as the first. "Bring me one of those," he said, referring to the drink Arnuff held. Arnuff poured another bourbon and brought it to the coffee table.

J.T. Bishop

#3. Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

Levi Woodbury

#4. Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.

Paulo Coelho

#5. He did not smile. I don't believe in anything, but I'm too much of a gambler not to be affected by a lot of things.

Dashiell Hammett

#6. First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#7. I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.

Neil Gaiman

#8. So I held on till all the late sounds had quit and the early ones hadn't begun yet; and then I slipped down the ladder.

Mark Twain

#9. Every second that you're filming, you have a myriad of choices to make.

Anne Makepeace

#10. I'm satisfied with what I've done. I'm not satisfied with what has happened in my career, some of the real roadblocks I had to overcome.

Ray Price

#11. Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#12. Across his forehead was stamped the word WORTHLESS. How ironic. Exactly what someone might find stamped on his own forehead if they could see it. Physician, heal thyself.

James L. Rubart

#13. Man has no foothold that is not also a bargain. So be it!

Djuna Barnes

#14. I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

Pete McCarthy

#15. And then a strange calm fell over her and the snow and limbs were no longer obstacles. In this moment she became a part of the forest and avoided pitfalls and roots with ease. She felt free as the howling winds and the birds of prey that trailed them.

Jennifer Silverwood