Quotes of: Herring Keyword

[last lines] Wreck-It Ralph: [voice-over] But the best part of my day is when the Nicelanders throw me off the roof. Because when they lift me up, I get a perfect view of "Sugar Rush," and I can watch Vanellope racing. The kid's a natural, and the pl...

Wreck-It Ralph

At the house, I park and run upstairs and they're still in bed, but the T.V in the adjacent room is on, a concert -Augustana singing Boston playing subtly on Vh1. I disrobe and slip back under the sheets behind Peyton, wrapping my hands around her to...

Valentine Mabuza

If you want to hit your mother-in-law, be sure to split her head.

Arabian

The bee gets honey from the same flower where the snake sucks her poison.

Armenian

There are three things that attract: a house for its inhabitants, a woman for her spouse, and a bargain for a customer.

Hebrew

When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.

Iranian

Scratch an old woman's back and she will let you taste her pepper pot.

Jamaican

A lovely girl attracts attention by her good looks, an ugly girl by the help of a mirror.

Maltese

Never take a wife till you know what to do with her.

Scottish

He that would have a beautiful wife should choose her on a Sunday.

Spanish

There is no woman who sleeps so deeply that the sound of a guitar won't bring her to the window.

Spanish

The person who has not traveled widely thinks his or her mother is the best cook.

Ugandan

Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.

The City of Devi

It wasn’t that she believed in voodoo, precisely—but she believed in the people who believed in voodoo—and that was scary enough. -Coralee Ayers

Curses Beneath Her Feet

Trust God with your love life, and buckle up for the ride!

Confessions of a Boy-Crazy Girl: On Her Journey From Neediness to Freedom

She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.

Cigarettes

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

Chances

But this dagger – this was her first. Her favorite. The same one that had sliced off the boy’s toe on the beach and sent it rolling through the sand.

Church of Marvels

Lifting his head to gently kiss her lips, he whispered, “I trust you.” Then he covered his own eyes with her satin mask.

Convicted

He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.

Consequences

If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls -

Collected Poems