Metrical Foot Quotes

#1. Get a gym membership! If you have a membership, you're bound to go. If you say, like, 'Oh, I'll get it one day,' you're never going to do it.

Jennette McCurdy

#2. I'll tell you why I'm Shirley," Count Olaf said. "I'm Shirley because I would like to be called Shirley, and it is impolite not to do so.

Lemony Snicket

#3. Perhaps men like the Everseas were commonplace here in England. Perhaps finding a beautiful titled husband would be as simple as shaking an apple from a tree.

Julie Anne Long

#4. A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

Nadeem Aslam

#5. Modifying one's vocabulary to avoid embarrassment is a universal human behaviour.

Gaston Dorren

#6. It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine of a woman without her top on at any 7-11 store. So, you can sell breasts, but you cannot wear breasts, in America.

Violet Rose

#7. You simply cannot pay the debts that come along with believing you are unworthy.

Iyanla Vanzant

#8. A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Alan Bennett

#9. Only a small crack ... but cracks make caves collapse.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#10. So now that we know what a date entails, we should go out on one.

J. Lynn

#11. Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

Charlotte Mason

#12. The heart never knows the colour of the skin

Chief Dan George

#13. The most persecuted European national minority in the second half of the 1930s was not the four hundred thousand or so German Jews (the number declining because of emigration) but the six hundred thousand or so Soviet Poles (the number declining because of executions).1

Timothy Snyder

#14. Forget uniforms or nominal allegiances - if it wears a weapon and scars, it's no safer than the next starving wild dog. Feed and water with care, walk like you're carrying dragon eggs, and never, never get between rival packs.

Richard K. Morgan

#15. We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau