Florrie's Quotes

#1. Oh, for shame! Nancy, have you never seen Florrie's face in a chrysanthemum, or a rose?'
'Never.' I said. 'Though there was a flounder for sale on a fishmonger's barrow, in Whitechapel yesterday, and the likeness was quite uncanny. I very nearly brought it home ...

Sarah Waters

#2. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

John Fowles

#3. Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of

Lauren Beukes

#4. Discipline and devotion are necessary to the practice of love, all the more so when relationships are just beginning.

Bell Hooks

#5. There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#6. On George W Bush: That man sits at that desk in the White House with the button that can end the world. My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television.

Billy Connolly

#7. While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?

Thomas Jefferson

#8. On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
an exquisite dew falls on our heart
and then vanishes.
But the freshness lingers, and this, always,
is what the heart needs.
The earth must have risen in just such a light
the morning the world was born.

Albert Camus

#9. Taking my hand, he rests it over his T-shirt, over his heart. You hold this in the palm of your hand. You are the only woman who has ever had it, and ever will. You own me, Tru.

Samantha Towle

#10. I used to try to hypnotize myself into a Zen-like state of resignation at the outset. It doesn't work, not for this grasshopper. I have my own process, as they say. I call it the motherfucker process.

Matthew B. Crawford

#11. I know God love me, because my enemies don't triumph over me.

Ellen J. Barrier

#12. In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

Karl Popper

#13. The only person who knows what's in my wallet is my wife.

Tracy Morgan

#14. We all know them - the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose.

Robert Breault

#15. It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.

Geoff Mulgan

#16. Sometimes the things we want to say the most are the things that should never be said.

Megan Hart

#17. I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

Jerry Falwell