Cross Grained Quotes

#1. Killick was a cross-grained bastard, who supposed that if he sprinkled his discourse with a good many sirs, the words in between did not signify:

Patrick O'Brian

#2. And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.

Lara St. John

#3. The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

Rich Lowry

#4. I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

Ted Cruz

#5. Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.

Ava Gardner

#6. I'm afraid I can't let you take it. I could, you know, give you its big toe or something, as a keepsake, but that's about it.

Derek Landy

#7. He who is determined to win does not give up

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

Honore De Balzac

#9. Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes. On

Charlotte Bronte

#10. I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.

Viola Davis

#11. If you have a child, you'll notice they have two states: asleep or online.

Eric Schmidt

#12. It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion.

Steve Winwood