Chaperon Quotes

#1. I'm impressed by your protectiveness over them, but I'm only asking for an introduction. Are they so fragile they need an old man as chaperon? Do they have no tongues?

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#2. The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads.

Lemony Snicket

#4. By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like.

Jane Austen

#5. He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

Douglas Adams

#6. Jem drew back from her, looking dazed. "By the Angel," he said. "Perhaps we do need a chaperon.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

Emile M. Cioran

#8. When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

M. Stanton Evans

#9. Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.

Melina Kanakaredes

#10. I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!"
"You did!" she retorted. "And although I can't say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that I am accompanied today by my aunt!"
"Who adds invisibility to her other accomplishments!

Georgette Heyer

#11. You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors? Exchanges

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#12. Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#13. The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

#14. Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

Eric Ries

#15. Please tell me you will remember, no matter how much I do wrong that I had the best of intentions all along.

Travis Tritt

#16. I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that.

Cathy Freeman

#17. I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

Charles Bukowski

#18. Customers and contracts are like water and a sieve. The customer will find the largest hole and slide through it.

Larry McVoy

#19. Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I'll never quit working in the theater - until I can't memorize two lines back to back.

Brian Dennehy

#20. My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that.

Tony Goldwyn