Voights Creek Quotes

#1. Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.

Miranda Hart

#2. Life is so simple: We walk; we sit; we lie horizontal. That's about it. Everything else is a story about what's going on while we're doing it.

Byron Katie

#3. The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

Judith Martin

#4. None shall rule but the humble,And none but Toil shall have.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm not going to be greedy.' Unless you're able to do that you're stuck with adversarial politics that leads nowhere and creates ever greater violence.

Pankaj Mishra

#7. Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#8. No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

Frances Sargent Osgood

#9. To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

John C. Maxwell

#10. The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

Wilson Mizner

#11. I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

Jim Butcher

#12. When you learn to harness the power of your fears, it can take you places beyond your wildest dreams

Jimmy Iovine

#13. This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#14. I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.

Tichina Arnold