Old Idioms Quotes

#1. The leptons most familiar to the non-physicist are the electron and perhaps the neutrino; and the most familiar quarks are . . . well, there are no familiar quarks.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. It's what I cling to when everything else - everyone else - slips right between my grasping fingers.

Rachel Vincent

#3. If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

Vikram Seth

#4. I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

Henri Matisse

#5. Ma foi," said Danglars, "it would not be a bad speculation,

Alexandre Dumas

#6. Everything I didn't know I was looking for ... it's there whenever I'm with you. I don't know what it is that you think I deserve, but I don't want anything other than what's right here, right now.

Courtney Giardina

#7. How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Adolf Hitler

#8. 500. There are paradoxes. If there were no night, we would be deprived of the
magnificent image of a starry sky. Thus light deprives us of "vision," and
darkness helps us "see.

Alija Izetbegovic

#9. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives.

Cheryl Strayed

#10. There is always a third possibility, as long as you have the ability to find it.

Selma Lagerlof

#11. Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

Douglas Southall Freeman

#13. Antsy, adj.
I swore I would never take you to the opera again.

David Levithan