Delicto Quotes

#1. Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

Sydney J. Harris

#3. Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. School until the day a teacher, acting on an anonymous tip from a member of the student body, surprised the undercover couple in flagrante delicto in a broom

Junot Diaz

#5. Myron nodded. "The hotel on Route 80? Maybe five miles from here?" "Right. My source doesn't know what it was for or what ended up on it. He just knows the work was for the Downing divorce. He also confirmed the obvious: this thing is usually done to catch a spouse in flagrante delicto." Myron

Harlan Coben

#6. Be how you want to be received.

Allison Holker

#7. I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.

Cameron Diaz

#8. When you get into an airplane by yourself and take off, you find yourself in this lovely, three-dimensional world where you can go in any direction. There is no feeling any more exciting than that.

Gene Roddenberry

#9. If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

Katharine Hepburn

#10. I keep thinking about fire," Piper said. "How we expect Leo to beat this giant because he's ... " "Hot?" Leo suggested with a grin. "Um, let's go with flammable.

Rick Riordan

#11. I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

Steven Wright

#12. What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#13. For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessness do not usually bring forth their finest qualities.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. People tend to invert the most natural order of life, which is to move before things happen, instead of expecting things to happen to move.

Robin Sacredfire

#15. Every broken lunatic needed a theme song.

Scott Nicholson

#16. A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

Jean Hanff Korelitz