Dorm Mates Quotes

#1. I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'

Meghan Daum

#2. The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.

Alex Van Halen

#3. For the sincere wish to be good is half the battle.

Louisa May Alcott

#4. Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race?

Mark Twain

#5. That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again

Rumi

#6. As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

Aeschylus

#7. And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.

Nicholas Sparks

#8. [Connor to Major Wentworth, grandson of King George]
My fathers were lairds in the Highlands when yours were still farmin' kale back in Germany!

Pamela Clare

#9. When we express our thought in words, the medium is not found easily. There must be a process of translation, which is often inexact, and then we fall into error. But

Rabindranath Tagore

#10. I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

Salma Hayek

#11. All you can do when it comes to ferries is get in line and hope.

Maria Semple

#12. You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

Prince Philip

#13. Pretty' doesn't mean 'good,' you know, Geneva. Real life isn't like fairy tales. 'Pretty' simply means that by accident you've got things arranged on your outside in an extra-pleasing manner. It doesn't tell a thing about your inside.

Natalie Babbitt

#14. No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

James Bryce

#15. A castle of defense, a bastion of might
A fort where the wise teach the young to fight
An armory of weapons, sharp as hooks
Are wrapped in leather and shelved as books

Shannon Hale