#paraphrase

It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year. ↗

— Joey Green

#love #paraphrased #humor

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error. ↗

— Linus Pauling

#paraphrased #science #inspirational

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise? ↗

— Brad Warner

#paraphrased #death

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size ↗

— Melissa Nathan

#melissa-nathan #paraphrased #pride-and-prejudice #humor

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#paranormal #paraphrased #young-teen #teen

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #simile #simile

Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker ↗

— Darynda Jones

#genius

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me. ↗

— Walter Koenig

#appealing #certainly #concept #engagement #like

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#humor #mystery #paraphrased #humor

Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum. ↗

— Lisa Shearin

#male-beauty #paraphrased #sex-appeal #beauty