Scowly Quotes

#1. I wanted a footman with twinkly eyes like Father Christmas, not the eyes of a Viking mercenary. Footmen are supposed to be clean-shaven and pleasant-looking, and have nice names like Peter or George. But mine is scowly and growly, and his name is Drago and he has a black beard.

Lisa Kleypas

#2. Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.

Katie McGarry

#3. Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

Cinda Williams Chima

#4. I am mortified by my music choices.

Roxane Gay

#5. Maybe this is another way to think about original sin - the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence to it.

Krista Tippett

#6. Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.

Susan Cain

#7. If we're going to make mistakes anyway, we might as well learn from them
"teachable moments".

Orrin Woodward

#8. Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.

Gina Holden

#9. Didn't open the box? What was it last time? Didn't know what it was? And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we? - Cenobite

Clive Barker

#10. Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.

William Davis

#11. All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such conditions are they comprehensible by readers and expressible by writers. Aldous Huxley

Nicholas Murray

#12. The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

Jean De La Bruyere

#13. Nothing enduring can be built on violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. In a way, "failure" is just another word for "the journey," for not being there yet but on the way. It's the road we walk on to get wherever it is we're trying to go.

Sara Zarr

#15. Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?

Jiddu Krishnamurti