Monneret De Villard Quotes

#1. In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.

Andrew Weil

#2. My main weakness is nerves.

Megan Fox

#3. Although the flagship brand, Pepsi-Cola, has always been second to Coca-Cola, the Frito-Lay division is ten times larger than its largest competitor, Diamond Foods, Inc., of San Francisco. Its products take up whole aisles at Walmart.

John Seabrook

#4. Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

Candace Bushnell

#5. How about we call it lovingly fucking your brains out?

R.K. Lilley

#6. All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

Ralph Ellison

#7. No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

Sappho

#8. A solider must leave someone behind,' she said. 'What men do best is walk away from women. Wars are handy for that.

Richard Peck

#9. It's funny, because when I went down to the combine for the interviews with teams, Charles Haley is the name that came up a lot as a comparison to the way I play. A lot of people said that I reminded them of him, and that's a great honor.

Justin Tuck

#10. Alexander leaned down,whispered in her ear,"If he touches you,"he said,lapping at the sensitive skin of her lobe,"I swear I will hunt him down and rip out his heart.

Laura Wright

#11. Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.

William Shakespeare

#12. ... she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah's Witness: uninvited and tireless.

Steve Toltz

#13. ... he never tells a truth, but with an intent that you should take it for a lye; nor a lye, but with the design that you should take it for a truth...

Jonathan Swift