Clich C3 A9s Quotes

#1. But it is not, as we say when we are being diplomatic, a fruitful source of inquiry.

Robin McKinley

#2. As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Could you be happy if you woke up and suddenly you were no one special?

Kami Garcia

#4. Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

Jim Butcher

#5. For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.

Benjamin Graham

#6. It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#7. Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

William T. Vollmann

#8. Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

Jarvis Cocker

#9. [I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#10. The occurrence of a highly improbable event is the equivalent of the nonoccurrence of a highly probable one

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

Graham Norton

#12. That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I should think.

Wallace Stegner

#13. "True expertise is the most potent form of authority."

Victoria Bond

#14. The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

Christine De Pizan

#15. She braced herself for the pain of the perfect horn breaking her heart.

Tanith Lee

#16. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

Umberto Eco

#18. Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

Christine De Pizan

#19. When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Bette Davis

#20. I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.

Sarah McLachlan

#21. Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?

Julian Fellowes

#22. I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.

Ann Aguirre

#23. Always go with your first impetuosity.

Brian Spellman

#24. What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#25. I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me.

Rudolf Spielmann

#26. [T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Charles Dickens

#27. What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve
it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#28. Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Virginia Woolf

#29. Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?'
She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

L.J.Smith