Uncentered Pupil Quotes

#1. My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuchang. We four children spoke Chinese before we spoke English. We left when the communists came, in the early 1930s. I was about 5 years old.

Audrey Meadows

#2. If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.

Jorge Luis Borges

#3. Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

Henepola Gunaratana

#4. In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

Utada Hikaru

#5. Curse us eh/I'll make you pay!/I don't want to rhyme all day!

Rick Riordan

#6. And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

Petrarch

#7. I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.

Noel Gallagher

#8. One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things.

Kathleen Rowland

#9. Sometimes some moments arrive in life: You go forward and you lose; you go backwards and you win!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

Owen Feltham

#11. Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Christine Keeler

#12. A lot can happen when the sun dips down and the moon come out to play ...

Ella Frank

#13. She thoroughly felt the pitch and roll of the ship as it traveled southerly across the ocean. It was a pleasant feeling, an ancient one that every person who had ever loved the sea had felt and cherished
to be rocked to sleep, as if in a mother's arms or in a cradle.

Victoria Kahler

#14. Ranger leaned closer and lowered his voice.

Janet Evanovich

#15. I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

Jacki Weaver