Sour Grape Quotes

#1. The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#2. There was nothing one could do when love came. It was fast, and it was strong, and if it were not good, then surely God would not have allowed it such power.

Luis Alberto Urrea

#3. I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence.

Michael Dumontier

#4. I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.

Marya Hornbacher

#5. Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

Karl Kraus

#6. I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.

Doug Flutie

#7. There was still about them what had always reminded Magnus of an old legend he'd heard of the red thread of fate: that an invisible scarlet thread bound certain people, and however tangled it became, it could not and would not break.

Cassandra Clare

#8. No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light.

Rumi

#9. The more time you put into practicing, then, the greater the payoff.

Daniel Goleman

#10. I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man.

Sean Connery

#11. Do it, SENATOR! And it will be the end of your career! Everyone will love to know of a scandal involving a senator who loves abusing luxury prostitutes." ~Larsson

Pet Torres

#12. so the shoes of their mules made only the softest sound on the rock. The quiet soothed her, and the gentle rocking

George R R Martin

#13. The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. One of the things that's been crazy for us has been the speed at which news can break on Digg, because it's powered by a mass of humans versus a machine that has to go out and crawl and find the information and then determine its relevance mathematically.

Kevin Rose

#15. The only way to survive in a community where movement was the norm and material accumulation impractical was to maintain a strong sense on tribal solidarity by evenly sharing all available resources.

Reza Aslan

#16. Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.

Reggie Lee

#17. A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Maya Angelou