Strictly Prohibited Quotes

#1. I have a policy about that word "soul." It is strictly prohibited except in cases of converstations having to do with okra recipes or Marvin Gaye.

Sarah Vowell

#2. The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Townsend Harris

#3. The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.

Caroline Kennedy

#4. The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. If you're comfortable in your own skin, you will feel beautiful - and look beautiful to others, too.

Adriana Lima

#6. I don't understand the change of hair ... Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.

Karl Lagerfeld

#7. Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby.
"Go ahead," Newt replied.
Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.

James Dashner

#8. I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.

Jean Dujardin

#9. Mother' (with a short scornful laugh), 'you will make me confess. The only time I saw Miss Hale, she treated me with a haughty civility which had a strong flavour of contempt in it. She held herself aloof from me as if she had been a queen, and I her humble, unwashed vassal. Be easy, mother.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#10. Fran grounded out to the pitcher. Max popped a weak single to right field. Brendan struck out swinging. But the Tigers hopes for a winning season were down to the last out.

Fred Bowen

#11. There are plenty of fools in the world; but if they had not been sent for some wise purpose, they wouldn't have been here; and since they are here they have as good a right to have elbow-room in the world as the wisest.

Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

#12. The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.

Jenny Holzer

#13. Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

Mooji

#14. The way I see it, how can you really say you'll love a person longer than love lasts?

Paula McLain

#15. The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never goes away.

Leigh Hershkovich