Quotations Around Sayings

#1. I want to have a good vacation before I have to go back home and start my 'big girl job'," Lori said, nose deep into the visitor's guide, but still making the air quotations around her words.

Lindsay Chamberlin

#2. Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?

Georges Didi-Huberman

#3. There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads ...

Joseph Epstein

#5. To feel free, create a fog around yourself! And how can you do this? Be silent! When you are silent, people will not notice you much! You will be invisible, you will be inside the fog!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. When I was around 19 years old, working in the college library, I was talking to a friend of mine and this older woman interrupted and said "You're too young to know about Billie Holiday." My response was "I'm too young to know about Shakespeare, too ... should I not read him?

Wanda Lea Brayton

#7. We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace.

Oswald Chambers

#8. But more than that, I felt - no, not beautiful. Even on such a romantic day as this I could not persuade myself of that. I knew that my jaw was too square, my legs too long, my hands too large. But I earnestly believed - and all the books agreed - that I would look beautiful to the man who loved me.

Corrie Ten Boom

#9. A hand closed around her arm, warm and hard, and it could possibly have been comforting if she had possessed the faintest idea whose appendage it was.

Lilith Saintcrow

#10. If you set out a cup of warm water on Mars, it'll try to boil, freeze, and sublimate, practically all at once. Water on Mars seems to want to be in any state except liquid.

Randall Munroe

#11. I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#12. Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

George Packer

#13. Enjoy every ounce of your life, get high and be sincere to anybody that comes around you.

Salman Aditya

#14. If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#16. Life is a like lit candle in the night, when it goes off the darkness continues

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#17. Leaning forward in the chair, Harley squeezed out a controlled fart, so no one could hear it. This damn reception area was like a echo chamber. If he weren't careful, it could reverberate around the hall like a shotgun blast.

Alan Kinross