Indiscretions Dictionary Quotes

#1. She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently been able to keep this a secret from people.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

Charles Churchill

#3. Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.

Kirstie Alley

#4. It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Barack Obama

#5. You really don't want to go to court and have the judge decide based on whether or not they're your friend, because you don't want to be thinking that the (judge's) friend is on the other side (of the court case).

Steven Pacey

#6. Pierrot knew that everything in the world was alive. Everything was composed of molecules that shook and vibrated and hummed. There was no such thing as permanence. Even the most stalwart object - such as a statue in the park - was struggling to keep itself together.

Heather O'Neill

#7. Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists.

Carla H. Krueger

#8. Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

Randy Pausch

#9. There was no sign of her daughter, no sign of a small body crumpled by the railway.

Sanjida Kay

#10. Remember, it's the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.

Joel Greenblatt

#11. But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.

Edmund Burke

#12. As a writer, you can't get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn't want to know.

Billy Marshall Stoneking

#13. The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

Andrew Sullivan

#14. Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846.

Leonard Boswell