Prettified Quotes

#1. We've been watching your kind, noting it all down, putting it in our order pads while you snort in your trough. It may be fragmented, it may not be prettified, it may not be in the Grand Tradition, but let me tell you
it's ours and we're ready to publish!

Will Self

#2. What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Noam Chomsky

#3. Anyone and anything can be a vehicle for the expression of God - but never contain the fullness of God. Therefore, the church recognizes that God will simultaneously employ and shatter.. all doctrines, all ideologies.. even within the church itself.

Thomas G. Bandy

#4. She was the kind of girl who wore dark lipstick and didn't need to speak a word to seduce you.

Stephen F. Campbell

#5. We've got Father and Mother, and each other, said Beth contentedly from her corner.

Louisa May Alcott

#6. For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. The Dorm Room Diet is nothing like the conventional diets you may have tried in the past. It offers guidelines for creating a healthy lifestyle on your own, without the daunting restrictions of a quick-fix diet.

Daphne Oz

#8. I always try to write about believable people.

Danielle Steel

#9. Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

Joseph Campbell

#10. Nothing in the Bible encourages us to give sex the exalted status it has in our culture, as if finding our purpose, our identity, and our fulfillment all rest with what we can or cannot do with our private parts.

Kevin DeYoung

#11. Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

Joan Borysenko

#12. But each in its own way was affected by the growing intolerance of immoderate inequality, initiating public provision to compensate for private inadequacy.

Tony Judt

#13. I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.

Marc Ostrofsky

#14. She feared so many things. Too many to want to count them. Some she would not even want to try to justify.
But his touch?
Surprisingly, this was not one of them . . .

Marilyn Brant

#15. Bridges join but they also separate.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.

Steve Vernon