Piteously Quotes

#1. The Hemulen, moaning piteously, thrust his nose into the sand. "This has gone too far!" he said. "Why can't a poor innocent botanist live his life in peace and quiet?"
"Life is not peaceful," said Snufkin, contentedly.

Tove Jansson

#2. Sometimes, though not often, he had dreams, and they were more painful than the dreams of other boys. For hours he could not be separated from these dreams, though he wailed piteously in them. They had to do, I think, with the riddle of his existence.

J.M. Barrie

#3. I feel ill," he announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die." He tottered piteously to the stairs. "Bury me beside Mrs. Pentstemmon," he croaked as he went up then to bed.

Diana Wynne Jones

#4. Grade school was perilous ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.

Sue Grafton

#5. Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

Raymond Chandler

#6. I prefer to fight a bigger guy. I don't like fighting smaller guys; they give me problems with their agility.

Tyson Fury

#7. We have a priori reasons for believing that in every sentence there is some one order of words more effective than any other; and that this order is the one which presents the elements of the proposition in the succession in which they may be most readily put together.

Herbert Spencer

#8. Lord I'm Doing All I Can To Be A Better Man.

Robbie Williams

#9. And Im happy that Im not super skinny.

Alicia Keys

#10. My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'

Dolly Wells

#11. That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

Dee Dee Myers

#12. People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Bill Cosby

#13. Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.

Mike Myers

#14. If you are a Scot living outside of Scotland but still in the UK, you are not allowed to vote in the referendum. This leaves over a million of loyal, proud Scots disenfranchised. It gives me the rage.

Damian Barr

#15. The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami. The law may be used to confound reason, reason must certainly not be used to overthrow the law.

James Clavell

#16. Having a syndicated comic strip is a great platform for ripping on expressions you hate.

Stephan Pastis

#17. It is the sun that shares our works.
The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.

Wallace Stevens

#18. I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

Jack Nicholson

#19. Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

Kel Mitchell