Fossilization In Language Quotes

#1. His mouth was the only bit of softness on him. Wide and sensual, lips parted slightly in his drugged state, his mouth was profanely beautiful.

Lara Adrian

#2. It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry.

Damon Horowitz

#3. There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#4. The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But between us and It, there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete. Deus absconditus. Or we have absconded.

R.D. Laing

#5. If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

Kelly Miller

#6. Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#7. I'm 47, I have gray hair, and yet people still come up to me on the street who are in their twenties, who weren't even born when 'Singles' was made ... well, they were pretty tiny, anyway ... and they say, 'Oh, I love that movie 'Singles.' And I always say, 'How old are you?'

Campbell Scott

#8. In America, the rich man tries to pretend that the poor man is his equal in every respect but money, which is simply not true.

Donna Tartt

#9. She realised she was whimpering. Sir held her closer, his hard grip reassuring. This wasn't a dream; he really was here.

Cherise Sinclair

#10. The thing about sleeping is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. Complete waste of time

Jennifer Niven