Disputatious Quotes

#1. Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Lord Byron

#2. Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.

William Muir

#3. The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000-year lease on its property at a perpetual rate of 45 pounds per year--one of the best bargains in Irish commercial history!

Rashers Tierney

#4. Well, I think the best thing we can do for the short term is move good energy legislation through to the Congress; I'm encouraged that there's some prospect for that now.

John W. Snow

#5. Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

Nicole Richie

#6. What a shame for a man like him to be born during peacetime. If he'd been born only a few decades earlier, he'd have worn the mantle of hero,

Mo Yan

#7. A quickening inside her, a dawning. She realized, quite suddenly, that she wanted to breathe the same air as Obinze.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. Every woman before her has been a promise unfulfilled.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#9. No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.

William S. Burroughs

#10. The whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

M.C. Beaton

#11. We're kindred spirits. And you're strong, Nikki. There's a core of strength and confidence in you that's damn sexy.

J. Kenner

#12. Making the leap from the best sunglasses company in the world to a world-class brand is a natural transition.

James Jannard

#13. As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Basil Rathbone

#14. Love may be blind, but lust is just damn stupid.

Lois Greiman