#phrase

People don't tend to employ me. I'm the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short time and then they sack me. A film broker once told me, as she terminated my contract, that I have a misleading sort of face. "You're pretty", she complained. "Your features are symmetrical and there was an article in Grazia that says human beings are programmed to find those with symmetrical features more pleasing to they eye. So this isn't my fault, I was simply responding to a biological imperative. You've even teeth, so when you smile, you look...sweet, I suppose. But you're not, are you?" "I hope not," I said. "You see, there you go again. You're a smart-arse and you've no ability to filter your thoughts---" "And my thoughts are often abrasive." "Exactly." "I'll just get my brushes and sponges and leave." "If you would. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#humorous #turn-of-phrase #way-with-words #family

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#paraphrased #humor

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there ↗

— George Harrison

#paraphrase-of-lewis-carroll #life

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#extremely #grass #grows #horse #man

Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#men

There is no God and we are his prophets. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#paraphrased #religion #religion

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#paraphrased #influence

Evil will win if good people do nothing. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#real-talk #good-and-evil

There's none so blind as those who will not listen. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#paraphrased #stubbornness #americans

I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#always #am #bad #defective #english