Pretty Smiley Quotes

#1. They talk as an English butler might after several years in a Chicago grand-opera company.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. I have spent much of my life turning away from the scripts given to me, in China and in America; my refusal to be defined by the will of others is my one and only political statement.

Yiyun Li

#3. I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay and The Rebel. I was an eighteen-year-old kid. I hated myself. I hated my life. I thought nobody wanted me.

Sam Hamill

#4. Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.

Plato

#5. I would do almost anything for him to kiss me; his possessive lips and eager tongue invading my mouth, even the thought sent tingles up my numb spine and lifeless body

Mercy Cortez

#6. I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

Mario Testino

#7. We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence?

Doris Grumbach

#8. It was written in a red felt marker, and his first thought was that it was from Sarah, though it didn't look like a girl's writing. A girl would make it pretty, with kisses and smiley faces, and she would do it in colored pens and make an envelope as well.

Todd Young

#9. When will the white man ever become wise, and, instead of treating the Indian with scornful indifference, give him credit for his intelligence, his quick and remarkable instincts, his powers of reflection and organization, and his inveterate opposition to all innovation?

John Carey Cremony

#10. I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.

Michael Socha

#11. I never would have seen Chelsea reach up, take Logan's face in her hands, and kiss him. So the off again was definitely on again. And I knew then that Patrick was very wrong about my heart, because if it had actually been an encyclopedia I could have watched it all with perfect composure.

Marni Bates

#12. You don't have to change yourself at all to be a writer. It's come as you are.

Chris Keane

#13. Families are the treasure of heaven.

Neil L. Andersen

#14. But I could always tell in her eyes if she got really pissed at me, and her eyes were still pretty smiley

John Green

#15. Every mind should reflect to touch the green of life through trees.

Munia Khan

#16. It was a proverb. Or half of one. Water will wear away stone, but it won't cook supper. Everything has its own strengths.

Ann Leckie

#17. There was a fellow called Smiley married Ann Sercomb, Lord Sawley's cousin. Damned pretty girl, Ann was, and went and married this fellow. Some funny little beggar in the Civil Service with an OBE and a gold watch. Sawley was damned annoyed.

John Le Carre

#18. I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

Charlie Bewley

#19. In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

Jane Smiley