Hupsos Quotes

#1. A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

Jonathan Swift

#2. You are pregnant, with child, in the family way. People, some of whom you hardly know, will begin to comment on your belly size. They might even give it a rub, like you have strapped an animal of some kind in your front side and given total strangers permission to pet you at their leisure.

Amy E. Spiegel

#3. God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

Karen Kingsbury

#4. I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

Fay Wray

#5. The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.

Gever Tulley

#6. She closes my door behind her and all the petty stresses of life reappear, eager to make up for lost time. I've developed a phobia of that door closing for the last time, of losing her in any way or of being lost.

Thomm Quackenbush

#7. I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music.

Prince Royce

#8. A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

John P. Kotter

#9. My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.

Sylvie Guillem

#10. 'Religion,' I should note, has a disputed etymology in Latin: some say it's from 'relegere,' meaning 'to reread', while others say it's from religare, meaning 'to connect' or 'link.' Literature is life's fastener.

Joshua Cohen

#11. Observing that we have waged wars on poverty and drugs as well as cancer, Susan Sontag writes, "Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in

Eula Biss

#12. I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

John Scalzi

#13. I need poise. I'm just so clumsy that it would kind of save me a lot.

Brea Grant

#14. So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth-you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear ...

Malcolm X

#15. Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Ludwig Wittgenstein