“Me too." I agree fervently. "Every film should definitely have a message."
Which is true. I mean... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like "Don't lose your ring.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“Ciao," I say casually, and flick my hair back. "Si. Ciao."
I could so be Italian. Except I might have to learn a few more words.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I know this is our honeymoon. But just sometimes, I wish Luke was a girl.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I feel a bit apprehensive as I see that he's looking directly at me. But I'm not doing anything wrong, am I? I mean, it's not like stalking is against the law.
Oh. Well, OK, maybe stalking is against the law. But I've only been doing it for five minutes. Surely that doesn't count. And anyway, how does he know I'm stalking anyone? I might just be sitting here for my pleasure.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“Something tells me organizing a protest against your husband’s client has got to be even worse than selling his Tiffany clocks.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“Material possessions aren't important to me," I say breathlessly. "All that matters to me is yoga.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“But that's what happens in life. People find new friends and new sisters. It's called natural selection.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“You’ve gone back to the way you used to be before. The way you promised you’d never be again.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I mean . . . take the Lord of the Rings movies—they’ve got loads of messages. Like “Don’t lose your ring.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“The first story is all about the president washing his piano. At least I’m pretty sure that’s what presidente and lavoro pieno must mean”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
“I can't move. I'm paralyzed in the middle of the street, like the donkey in that Aesop's fable who couldn't choose between the bales of hay. They'll find me in years to come, still frozen to the spot, clutching my credit card.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Shopaholic and Sister
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“That night was different... there was something pulling me towards him. Something dark and sexy.”
― Charles Burns, quote from Black Hole
“Hepimiz karşımızdakinin bizi anlamasını isteriz ama, ayna gibi içimiz dışımız görünsün istemeyiz.”
― Trevanian, quote from The Summer of Katya
“And Americans always think international laws are for other people anyway,”
― Orson Scott Card, quote from First Meetings in Ender's Universe
“The reason I prefer the sledgehammer to the rapier and the reason I believe in blunt, violent, confrontational forms for the presentation of my ideas is because I see that what’s happening to the lives of people is not rapierlike, it is not gentle, it is not subtle. It is direct, hard and violent. The slow violence of poverty, the slow violence of untreated disease. Of unemployment, hunger, discrimination. This isn’t the violence of some guy opening fire with an Uzi in a McDonald’s and forty people are dead. The real violence that goes on every day, unheard, unreported, over and over, multiplied a millionfold.”
― George Carlin, quote from Last Words
“The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart
How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say,
God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words
get it all wrong. We say bread and it means according
to which nation. French has no word for home,
and we have no word for strict pleasure. A people
in northern India is dying out because their ancient
tongue has no words for endearment. I dream of lost
vocabularies that might express some of what
we no longer can. Maybe the Etruscan texts would
finally explain why the couples on their tombs
are smiling. And maybe not. When the thousands
of mysterious Sumerian tablets were translated,
they seemed to be business records. But what if they
are poems or psalms? My joy is the same as twelve
Ethiopian goats standing silent in the morning light.
O Lord, thou art slabs of salt and ingots of copper,
as grand as ripe barley lithe under the wind's labor.
Her breasts are six white oxen loaded with bolts
of long-fibered Egyptian cotton. My love is a hundred
pitchers of honey. Shiploads of thuya are what
my body wants to say to your body. Giraffes are this
desire in the dark. Perhaps the spiral Minoan script
is not language but a map. What we feel most has
no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses, and birds.”
― Jack Gilbert, quote from The Great Fires
The Last Wish
The Garden of Eden
Angel
The Young Elites
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