Offhand Crossword Quotes

#1. For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren't Mormon say is, 'I grew up with a Mormon family. They're the nicest people I know.' So when I see these statistics that it's the most hated religion, I don't know where they're getting that from.

Brandon Flowers

#2. I am actually incredibly contented and jolly. But, and I have no idea why this is, I have a really strong empathy with all kinds of warped and destructive modes of thinking. I don't know why, but those things co-exist.

Sophie Hannah

#3. To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.

Emile M. Cioran

#4. I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

Leona Lewis

#5. I think the gay - the gay/straight alliances in the school are very useful as far as creating understanding among kids and so kids aren't necessarily so stigmatized or demonized for being who they really are.

Jeanne Phillips

#6. Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

Jane Austen

#7. I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.

Oswald Chambers

#8. Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires.

Rafael Yglesias

#9. It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is woking.

Douglas Adams

#10. The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.

David J. Schwartz

#11. You can't count on anyone else for your happiness, nor blame them for your misery.

Eden Carson

#12. I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.

Henny Youngman