Suitably Quotes

#1. I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. I realized with horror that I'd left my thesaurus in English class, and so wouldn't be able to describe their beauty in suitably poetic terms, but let me tell you, they were smokin' hot and no bullshit.

Stephfordy Mayo

#3. We managed to prepare a cell-free system which was active when suitably supplemented, and this was a novel result since the process of oxidation was believed to require the integrity of the cells.

Luis Federico Leloir

#4. Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.

Constance Markievicz

#5. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. 'The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl,

Gregory David Roberts

#6. The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

Algernon Blackwood

#7. A suitably sultry voice answered his office phone. I gave my name, and she checked to see if Mr. Walsh was in. Given that Grace said he was the only lawyer at his firm, one wouldn't think she'd need to check

Kelley Armstrong

#8. I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncle's, and it wasn't so much that I knew his films because I was small, but he wore sunglasses inside at night and I thought that must mean he was very important and was suitably star struck by his charismatic presence.

Emilia Fox

#9. Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried to destroy.

Michel Tournier

#10. Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

Victor Grignard

#11. We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#12. ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. Why, he wondered, did he have to peddle his difference for their amusement, and yet at the same time temper it, suppress it, make it suitably benign?

Leslie Parry

#14. Consider the question suitably modified.

Isaac Asimov

#15. Meerlust Rubicon from South Africa, a suitably wintry red.

John Connolly

#16. Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#17. A man can marry a thousand women but his heart is only capable of suitably loving one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

Jeremy Taylor

#19. Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them with a suitably concluded literary experience.

Mary Ann Tolbert

#20. Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#21. If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.

Wyndham Lewis

#22. If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

#23. I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.

Joe Armstrong

#24. I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.

Gary Jennings

#25. As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65

Marcel Benabou

#26. In all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

Margaret Mead

#27. In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

Taylor Hawkins

#28. I should also give some space to Amotz Zahavi's idea that altruistic donation might be a 'Potlatch' style of dominance signal: see how superior to you I am, I can afford to make a donation to you!

Richard Dawkins

#29. There is a God, even in Hollywood.

Jean Harlow

#30. Nothing in the 14th Amendment or in any other constitutional provision suggests that the president may usurp legislative power to prevent a violation of the Constitution.

Laurence Tribe

#31. Nobody hates us as ourselves. In their minds we're not human ... They don't hate us because we did something or said something. They make us stand for an evil they invent and then they want to kill it in us.

Marge Piercy

#32. My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.

George R R Martin

#33. It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

James Victore

#34. Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

Laura Donnelly

#35. Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.

Daniel Kahneman