Matronly Figure Quotes

#1. The woman who entered had the plump, matronly figure of the Good Gramma in a children's story and the beady eyes of a dick in a department store.

Stephen King

#2. Smart people admit unarmed helplessness is not only irresponsible, but, statistically, such carelessness is asking for trouble.

Mark Walters

#3. Any man who reads is a fine one.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. I'm very sturdy and very proud of it.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#5. One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

John Bayley

#6. Never deceive a friend.

Hipparchus

#7. A Grandmother thinks of her grandchildren day and night, even when they are not with her.She will always love them more than anyone would understand.

Karen Gibbs

#8. And how many ideas have there been upon earth, in human history, which only ten years earlier were unimaginable and which suddenly appeared when their mysteriously appointed season arrived, to go spreading all over the earth?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. Did you see how she stood and faced them down? I demanded with pride. A most excellent bitch, Nighteyes agreed.

Robin Hobb

#10. The Bane
... where coxswain's dirt
and seaman's shirts
brushed bawdily upon her chest ...

Muse

#11. From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change.

Pat Allwright

#12. Chance is as relentless as necessity.

Simon Blackburn

#13. Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer - unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance.

Mark Klett

#14. An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.

Tahir Shah

#15. Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#16. The image of Mac standing in front of a selection of penises, like a witness picking a criminal out of a line-up, was more than Rachel could bear with a straight face.

Suzie Quint