Oversees Def Quotes

#1. This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. And therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,

Benjamin Franklin

#3. There was such a thing as luck, but to acknowledge its existence was to hold two fingers up to fate.

Alistair MacLean

#4. I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.

Roger Maris

#5. We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

Frederick Lenz

#6. There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

Lois Greiman

#7. If there were no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.

David Levithan

#8. It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts.

Mark Ruffalo

#9. The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

Nikola Tesla

#10. We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

T. S. Eliot