"Eve was still frowning at the pasta like she suspected it was going to do something clever, like try to escape from the pot."

-- Rachel Caine

#Clever Quotes #Trying Quotes #Pasta Quotes

“The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.”
“The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.”

Source : 'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 10, ch. 56
“I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.”
“The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it”

Source : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158
“To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.”
“All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.”

Source : William Graham Sumner (1919). “The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays”
“I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.”
“A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.”

Source : 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 48 (on Comenus)

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