Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots. — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this? — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
From someone whose dad buys him a spade for Christmas, I thought you'd be grateful! — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five… — Jeremiah Wright Copy Share Image
I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...'… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I’ve been telling… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Part of the experience of enjoying a tennis match on TV is listening to the observations of an expert commentator -- one… — Dave McPherson Copy Share Image
Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll...I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you," she improvised. "And that… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'm glad you're still upright, Charles, and the only reason you are is because she didn't have any silver. She'd have staked… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I don't lack for bed partners, so I don't need to scrounge for unwilling scraps.-Spade — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image