Quotes About Grimy Friends

#1. My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.

Lucy Griffiths

#2. Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.

Robert Graves

#3. Many have forgotten who our true enemy is. Satan is not playing a game with us. He is playing for keeps. He is out to destroy us.

Ruben Barreto

#4. You must hang onto the scraps of the bucking moment as if your sanity and life depended on it - because actually they do.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.

Lev L. Spiro

#7. And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

Jennifer Egan

#8. To grow up as a "girl" is to be nearly fatally spoiled, deformed, confused, and terrified; to be responded to with falsities, to be reacted to as nothing or as a thing - and nearly to become that thing.

James Tiptree Jr.

#9. Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

William Shakespeare

#10. Linda's presentation of the 'facts' had been so gruesome that the children left Alconleigh howling dismally, their nerves permanently impaired, their future chances of a sane and happy sex life much reduced.

Nancy Mitford

#11. How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

Seth Godin