Its Not About Expensive Gifts Quotes

#1. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.

Mary Norris

#2. He who reads the Bible in translation is like a man who kisses his bride through a veil.

Hayim Nahman Bialik

#3. Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Oscar Wilde

#4. I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.

Anita Shreve

#5. Her smile turned wicked. "And I'm not a silly girl to be blinded by a tidy posterior and expansive landholdings."
Tidy posterior and expansive landholdings? Was that the Dark Ages equivalent of a tight ass and a lot of money?

Kim Harrison

#6. Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.

Samuel Beckett

#7. Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful than physical characteristics that are passed on.

Serge Nubret

#8. Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

Mason Cooley

#9. Some angels are like peacocks. Others are less flashy. Like city pigeons. It all depends on the wings.

Shelley Pearsall

#10. I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

Alan Ball

#11. The only way to go is to smile through it all.

Kartika Jahja

#12. Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#13. Golf is a nice game, but that's all. It's never going to be an exciting game to watch on TV. It's not a circus and never will be one. The audience for golf is not going to change significantly. It's always going to be people who play it, understand it, and love it.

Jack Nicklaus