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Janet Evanovich quote: "Throwing up is not a group activity"
Throwing up is not a group activity Janet Evanovich
J. M. Barrie quote: "He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the..."
He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman. J. M. Barrie
Douglas Adams quote: "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have..."
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. Douglas Adams
Right up until camera time, I was sweaty and green from having to touch my own eyeballs like that. If you've never had to do it, I'd say it's not as quease-making as when you lose your first tampon string, but equally as queasish to a self-breast exam. If you are male, I would liken it to touching your own eyeball, and thank you for buying this book. Tina Fey
Yogi Berra quote: "If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace..."
If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace else. Yogi Berra
Stephen Fry quote: "Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is..."
Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. Stephen Fry
The year is round! The wheel of the world must spin! That is why up here they dance the Dark Morris, to balance it. They welcome the winter because of the new summer deep inside it! Terry Prachett
Um," I asked, "isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else?" Prettying up the word slave with the adjective-noun constructions makes "enslaved African" sound nonchalant. As in "Those were the cabins of the jolly leprechauns. Sarah Vowell
And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago, where exactly does that leave you? Do you try to get to know who she has become, and hope for the best? Or do you keep deceiving yourself in the hope that she might wake up one morning and have gone back to the woman she used to be? May be, Caleb thinks with a small shock, he isn't the same person he once was, either. Jodi Picoult
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion..."
Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born. David Herbert Lawrence
This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? Charles Dickens
I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway. Mark Twain
Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter. Toni Morrison
It seems whenever we get too high hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving some thug nation comes along and decides we're a pushover all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up mighty anxiously to be sure the flag is still waving over us. Jimmy Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy George M. Cohan
I cannot but feel compassion when I hear some trig, compact-looking man, seemingly free, all girded and ready, speak of his 'furniture,' as whether it is insured or not. 'But what shall I do with my furniture?'...It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run. Henry David Thoreau

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