Diretions Quotes

#1. They were two ships sailing in opposite diretions, having met for a short time in the middle of the voyage, and he could no sooner "keep her" than capture the wind.

Alexandra Bracken

#2. There was organisation at work, but clutter, too. The mark of a logical mind that sometimes strayed. Pepper

Becky Chambers

#3. Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

Jennifer Stone

#4. Oh, but nonsense, she thought; William must marry Lily. They have so many things in common. Lily is so fond of flowers. They are both cold and aloof and rather self-sufficing. She must arrange for them to take a long walk together.

Virginia Woolf

#5. And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

Emily Watson

#6. In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

Bob Inglis

#7. I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too ... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

Olivia Williams

#8. Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Olive Schreiner

#9. Each day was a carbon copy of the last. You needed a bookmark to tell one from the other.

Haruki Murakami

#10. If she's a flapper," mused the sergeant, wiping Passionate Rouge lipstick off his blameless mouth, "then I'm all for 'em, and I don't care what Mum says.

Kerry Greenwood

#11. Girls don't come to the Barbizon for answers, Laura... They come to find out what questions they need to be asking.

Michael Callahan

#12. What if history was changed? slavery reversed
Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

Fredro Starr

#13. Men who seek power eventually overreach themselves, you know that.

Anne Leonard

#14. Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness. But if he were to count properly, he'd see that there's enough of both lots for him.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky