Compactly Folded Quotes

#1. it was always slightly off when everyone was in a couple except for one person. the entire group tended to single that person out, as if to try and make him feel better in his aloneness, as though it were an unnatural state.

Meg Wolitzer

#2. A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

William Bennett

#3. Amberley excelled at chess - a mark, Watson, of a scheming mind.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Regina Brett

#5. Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.

Andy Borowitz

#6. His mum had loved her ornaments, as she called them, but when she died, his dad waited about a week before boxing them up and giving them to a charity shop. "I loved your mum, Quinton," he'd said, "but I hate them fuckin' porcelaincats.

India Drummond

#7. In a relentlessly commercial culture, the communication of our private meanings has been vaguely corrupted around the edges by the toxic idioms of merchandising.

Charles Baxter

#8. In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

Julie Walters

#9. When I walk out on stage, I don't know who's in the audience. To me, in my little fat skull, the laugh is just the widest demographic you can get.

Dave Coulier

#10. Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

Millard Fillmore

#11. Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

Danny Brown