Dainty Quote by Michael Chabon Download Open image “Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.” — Michael Chabon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dainty Drunk Fool Girl Lexicon Nancy Nancy drew Spokes
“I was supposed to be Nancy Drew, and instead I was Nancy Draw-the-blinds-and-put-it-in-me. Wait, what?” — R.S. Grey Copy Share Image
“Jane: "Missy was not so subtly reminding me that she had done something nice for me and here i was being rude when all… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now. — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk!" Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning." (Reported exchange… — Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor Copy Share Image
“But Jane had tried that with Mothers Group and failed. She just couldn’t relate to those bright, chatty women and their bubbly conversations about… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“She managed (as so few people do) to look exactly what she was. [Jane]” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin'… — Willy Russell Copy Share Image
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!… — John F. Akers Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“We figure he must have let him out. The perpetrator, I mean. He's blind and we figure he just wandered off and maybe got… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Then I reminded myself that I was always willing to listen to arguments in favor of avoiding an unpleasant chore, and I shook my… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union: Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Life blew in gusts from the hole in the side of the elephant with a rank smell and a comic flatulence.” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Not only would I never want to belong to any club that would have me for a member--if elected I would wear street shoes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint?… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“ Autumn Days Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at… — Will Carleton Copy Share Image
Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with… — Kesha Copy Share Image
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image