Direness Def Quotes

#1. They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.

Joseph Conrad

#2. You fucked your prisoner?" Avasarala said, her expression evenly divided between amusement and disgust. "Nah," Amos said. "I don't tend to do that with people I like.

James S.A. Corey

#3. Love is when you'd rather see someone one last time and die, than never see their face again.

Bryan Butvidas

#4. We are Plantagenets - we dine on a diet of betrayal and heartbreak.

Philippa Gregory

#5. I like connecting to places by foot, and I'm interested in experiencing how somewhere like Crieff connects to somewhere like London.

Rory Stewart

#6. By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life.

Tina Fey

#7. Failure.
That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness ...

John Wyndham

#8. If I have to make moves in her, we'll all get bloody. You, go wake up Raithe. Tell him Hari's waiting to see him. He'll come with you."
"Hari?" He frowned like he wasn't sure if he was being kidded. "Of what abbey? In what land?"
"Hari of Do as You're Told in the land of And Shut the Fuck Up.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#9. Once you put bacon in a salad, it's no longer a salad. It just becomes a game of 'find the bacon in the lettuce'. It's like you're panning for gold. Eureka!

Jim Gaffigan

#10. Quail Hollow is always going to be a special spot for me, and winning there gave me a little more credibility. But I want to be a multiple winner on the PGA Tour.

Rickie Fowler

#11. Your view on this is narrow. That's how you're built." It didn't feel narrow to her. It felt right. "Marriage is a promise. That's one of the ways you talked me into it. If you break one part of the promise, it's going to crack other parts.

J.D. Robb

#12. And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.

Julian Grenfell

#13. Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Robert Benchley