Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Rosenberg

His past and his feelings for the girl he's into are really important elements of the character. There's also the betrayal that he's gone through, and how he moves forward from that.

William Wordsworth

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Richard Russo

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Salman Rushdie

Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.

Winston Churchill

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

Robert Graves

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

Wendell Berry

Our destruction of nature is not just bad stewardship, or stupid economics, or a betrayal of family responsibility; it is the most horrid blasphemy. It is flinging God's gifts into His face, as if they were of no worth beyond that assigned to them by our destruction of them.

Vladimir Nabokov

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

Elliot Robinson

If you think of public assistance, it is in some level a large bank. We need to have a process to make sure fraud does not occur, and some people think they can get away with it. It's such a betrayal of the people who want to help out the community as a whole.

Jennifer Rodriguez

He'll say one sentence and I'll say one sentence. It takes me forever to pop out that one sentence. It's horrible. I could kill him now.

Richelle Mead

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.” Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.

William Howard Taft

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

Sarah Dessen

Everyone had a forever.

Sarah Dessen

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.

Sarah Dessen

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

Sarah Dessen

Some things don't last forever, but some things do.

Sarah Dessen

the truth about forever is that it is happening right now

Warren Spahn

I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.

Stephen Wright

I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance.

W. C. Fields

I must have a drink of breakfast.

Vladimir Nabokov

By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.

Jill Abbott

Dad was really looking forward to being a grandfather for the first time. Six weeks before 9/11, I had breakfast with him, and I told him that we were going to name the child after him.

Rick Kaplan

It's what two people would do over breakfast in the morning.

Marilu Henner

It's better to pace yourself throughout a big day like Thanksgiving by having something healthful for breakfast and something light for lunch.

Laura Anderson

It's going to be real nice. We are going to serve breakfast in the mornings and burgers at lunch.

Lauren Weisberger

I'm a child of the '80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Sixteen Candles,' 'Dirty Dancing,' etc., with 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' existing on a separate, slightly higher plane.

John Grisham

I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.