Quotes for All
Humans have a saying that Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which basically means that if you think it’s beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign, which critics have … Read more
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman’s moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. Woman lives but in her lord; Count to ten, and man is bored. With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it? Dorothy Parker
The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips Chubby Checker
There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60’s when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse. Charlemagne Palestine
I’ve noticed the Fair Folk often say ‘perhaps’ when there is a truth they want to hide, Clary said. It keeps you from having to give a straight answer. Perhaps so, said the Queen with an amused smile. ‘Mayhap’ is a good word too, Alec suggested. Also ‘perchance,’ Izzy said. I see nothing wrong with … Read more
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition…Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure. Blaise Pascal
I went to a place recently I think is one of the most f**ked up places I’ve ever been to. I’m convinced this place is the epitome of American excess, of American greed. I’m talking about a place called Cold Stone Creamery. Whoa. If you have not been there, the basic gist of Cold Stone … Read more
Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn’t enjoy wearing wasn’t, and if he was too stubborn and old fashioned to understand that, he could go and soak his head in a bucket of cold water. He hadn’t quite … Read more
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I’d probably struggle at first but then I’d start to look for words I recognise and I’d get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that. Ralph Fiennes