Blue Bailey Quotes

#1. So, Beav, tell me about yourself." "I'm Blue." "Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in men, I wouldn't be too happy, either." "My name is Blue. Blue Bailey.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#2. Our answer, our opportunity, our chance to change the world has to come from the poetry that is already written on the walls of the soul.

Michael Meade

#3. So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#4. Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Never go on a date unarmed. Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. Descriptions and analyses of what exists are important but certainly not sufficient. We also need to understand what could be.

Michael Neocosmos

#7. If you 're serious about getting it on again, be sure to give me some advance notice, so I can grab my appointment calendar and block out three minutes.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#8. Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

Leos Carax

#9. You live in a single moment. I live in a thousand.

Leigh Bardugo

#10. A man needs a friend to share goals with, a woman to share his heart with, and a nation to serve with all of his heart. That's the best life one can live.

Yi Sun-sin

#11. No pain in love is so hard to bear as that which comes from the impossibility of doing any service from the well-beloved, and no service is so repulsive that love cannot make it delightful and easy.

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. Fern has Ugly Girl Syndrome." Bailey said, out of the blue. "Also known as UGS ... She grew up thinking she was ugly. She doesn't realize that she shed the ugly a long time ago. She's beautiful now. And she's just as pretty on the inside, which is a side benny of UGS.

Amy Harmon

#13. A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist.

Edward Abbey

#14. Marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#15. Yes, I have made a woman cry.

Enrique Iglesias

#16. Lastly I would like to thank all of the assholes in the world, without which this book would not be possible.

Albert Vidal

#17. The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

Jean Baudrillard

#18. He pointed at Abby's electric-blue pumps. "Women wear these evil creations around to confuse us. Sure, they make a girl's legs look good, but that's the black magic, my friends. They want us to feel their pain and not understand why.

Tessa Bailey