Verbivores Quotes

#1. We are verbivores, a species that lives on words, and the meaning and use of language are bound to be among the major things we ponder, share, and dispute.

Steven Pinker

#2. Maybe I ought to do exactly what I told Nick I was going to do and pursue you myself."
Lauren smiled. "I have a feeling you're as jaded and cynical as he is." He looked so stung that she added teasingly, "Well,you are-but still very attractive,for all that."
"Thanks," he said dryly.

Judith McNaught

#3. If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

Linda Fiorentino

#4. He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends.

Victor Hugo

#5. Fighting for peace is not the solution,
but loving for peace is the solution.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

#7. I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

Jane Pauley

#8. I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

Patience Strong

#9. There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

Chien-Shiung Wu

#10. All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here ... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

Meyer Lansky

#11. Mulder, I want you to meet your new assistant. Special Agent Dana Scully, Fox Mulder.'
'An assistant? Nice to know I'm suddenly so highly regarded.' Mulder turned to Scully. 'Who did you tick off to get stuck with this detail, Scully?

Les Martin

#12. But in the hours since they'd saved our asses and turned the tide of the battle, I had not spotted either of my brothers amongst the living. Did not know if Cassian or Azriel had even fought on the plain.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

Chris Matthews

#14. You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

Alfre Woodard

#15. The paradox of romantic love
that what one possesses, one can no longer desire
was at work.

Elizabeth Bowen

#16. Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively.

Marc Ostrofsky