Overmatched Heroine Quotes

#1. Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.

Paul Scholes

#2. It used to be a lot easier to get a book deal.

Patti Davis

#3. It is the goddess Kali," Mrs. Dixit explained brightly,

Jhumpa Lahiri

#4. The greatest vessel takes long to complete.

Laozi

#5. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. It's not like we're at a community college and God is at an Ivy League school. It's like we're at a community college and God comprehends all the mysteries and mechanics of the entire universe. We don't even operate in the same stratosphere as God.

Stephen Altrogge

#7. I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them.

Denis Dutton

#8. I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Doug Peacock

#9. Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

Samuel Johnson

#10. A flapping tongue puts out the light of wisdom."~Polly Shine

Jonathan Odell

#11. Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

Xenocrates

#12. Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

Bill Bryson

#13. Just like many Popish Plotters before them, these had promptly begun to "commit suicide" in the Tower. One had even managed the heroic feat of cutting his own throat all the way to the vertebrae!

Neal Stephenson