Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything.… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I suppose the implication of that is the president and the vice president and myself and Colin Powell just fell off a… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear… — John Gerstner Copy Share Image
Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next.… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best. — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
These Atlantikoinonia. They’re human? (Acheron) What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl. — Saadi Copy Share Image
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