Charmingly Old Quotes

#1. I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

Julie Christie

#2. No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burlap.

Erik Larson

#3. It's like the P-38 is an old skeleton key I'm trying to fit into an old padlock and when I make that connection I'll hear a click and a door will open and I'll walk through and be saved.

Matthew Quick

#4. How great God is! He has given us eyes to see the beauty of the world, hands to touch it, a nose to experience all its fragrance, and a heart to appreciate it all. But we don't realize how miraculous our senses are until we lose one.

Malala Yousafzai

#5. Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

Josh Billings

#6. Every man's disease is his personal property.

Alonzo M. Clark

#7. The smell of freedom. But perhaps it was true what his mother, the teacher, had said. That the human brain can reproduce detailed images of everything you have seen or heard, but not even the most basic smell. Smell. The images

Anonymous

#8. The way you get deals done and the way you get good terms, is to have a competitive situation.

Sam Altman

#9. There are things, also, that are memories as essential and structural as bones in toes and fingers.

A.S. Byatt

#10. I really like the sound of analog things where clearly there's something being touched. You can sense that something is handmade. So much with digital, there's a disconnect.

Andrew Bird

#11. What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell.

Tony Robbins

#12. I've struggled with many forms of mental illness since I was a kid, but clinical depression is a semiregular visitor and anxiety disorder is my long-term abusive boyfriend.

Jenny Lawson

#13. Kids, Roberts," she said, just to be clear. "I have fertile eggs in me, and I'm talking about having
babies."
She waited for the eye twitch. Or hell, even a tiny twinge.
Instead, with a smile, he pulled her in for a kiss.

Julie James

#14. I can't even say 'hair pie,' I told him, 'unless I'm talking about an actual pie made out of rabbits ...

Jonathan Safran Foer