Ferdydurke Quotes

#1. If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde

#2. It matters what you believe. Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage exclusiveness and the feeling of being especially privileged. Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies.

Sophia Lyon Fahs

#3. I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

Bill Lipinski

#4. I know who I am, how I was. I don't want to know how I will be because nobody knows that.

Catherine Deneuve

#5. I believe people can change, but only for the worse

Eminem

#6. As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.

Dallas Willard

#7. You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn!

Fanny Brice

#8. It was too late to retreat - the world exists only because it is always too late to retreat.

Witold Gombrowicz

#9. There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

John Milius

#10. Dedicated to book lovers and book bloggers everywhere, those large and small.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way.

Kathryn Michaels

#12. Writing is hard ... It gets harder when it becomes your career, your job, because it's no longer a hobby, it's no longer a manuscript hidden in your desk drawer. It becomes a platform from which the world can judge you. Your soul becomes target practice, and the critics hold the arrows.

Karina Halle

#13. All of us look younger and sweeter when we smile our real smiles, the ones that come when we're genuinely happy.

Stephen King

#14. I don't believe in Hell, but I believe in my parents' couch.

George Watsky

#15. By accepting or even welcoming your challenges, you create opportunities for their gifts to be revealed.

Mike Dooley