Unwinking Quotes

#1. I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Joyce Stranger

#2. We have a priceless inheritance - an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. - 1 Peter 1:4

Gary Chapman

#3. [Marriage] promote[s] the moral order of the world - Edith Wharton "The Eyes

S.T. Joshi

#4. My parents are always a great litmus test. Based on the amount of shrieks my mother gives when we're out in public, her constant shock when somebody comes up and says something nice.

Rick Hoffman

#5. The amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon ...

Peter Lesley

#6. A Romney presidency will be awesome unless you're poor, sick, gay, female, Mexican or a dog.

Andy Borowitz

#7. Leif stared at me, utterly still, the way only vampires and pet rocks can manage.

Kevin Hearne

#8. The memoir as a somewhat indistinct form is absolutely true. So many of the memoirs I've read, and the ones I have gravitated toward most, somehow upend what I expect from memoir and the project seems greater than just the exposition of a life.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#9. I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.

Rab Butler

#10. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying I love you.

Judith Viorst

#11. We are, after all, citizens of the world - a world filled with bacteria, some friendly, some not so friendly. Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonald's?

Anthony Bourdain

#12. Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

Emily Carr

#13. The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

Kate DiCamillo

#15. Men are like busses. I mean, you wait for ages and ages, and when one does finally come along you can't get on. And that bit about them coming in threes, well, that's just a myth.

Eleanor Prescott

#16. If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti