Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
Dorothy Parker
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KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES I am happy to experience beauty of each season; spring time, summer, autumn and winter.
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WENDY O. WILLIAMS Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel li...
MARILYN MONROE Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
Ye...
ALEXANDER POPE Damn, I was lonely that autumn. I wished for a girl I could hang out with. I never
really did a...
HENRY ROLLINS I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hat...
DAVID LEVITHAN I don't know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate - it feels like I'm singing...
AURORA Autumn to winter, winter into spring,
Spring into summer, summer into fall,--
So rolls the cha...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I hate the way you talk to me. And the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hat...
JULIA STILES I laid it all out for him: Eliza believes in me, she moves me, and she's moved BY me. She makes me h...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Inside my chest, my lungs are wild animals, clawing at the cage.
"Oh, man," Autumn mumbles from...
CHRISTINA LAUREN Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Pink makes me smile.
Pink makes me laugh.
Pink makes me love her.
Pink makes it all w...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
ROBERT JORDAN I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes ...
L. M. MONTGOMERY Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
HALLIE EPHRON Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
STANLEY HOROWITZ It was pretty obvious at the start of spring that I was the odd man out. That makes it pretty hard t...
JOE BORCHARD Sundays are my biggest enemies because it technically makes me remind of someone i missed from my li...
MADHU RAJ GHUSAR We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morni...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I hate being tickled. Sure, it makes me laugh, but when I get tickled, I get pissed off. I'm like a ...
TARA REID When Victoria told me how intensely she hated me, I kept the Beretta aimed at her face, but heard my...
DEAN KOONTZ When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is alway...
ANDREA BOCELLI Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
SALMA HAYEK It makes me feel better about missing a game. I hate to miss, but if we lose, I'll feel even worse a...
CHAMP BAILEY I wanna say thank you cause: Makes me that much stronger, makes me work a little bit harder. makes m...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improve...
PETER FORSBERG Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
HUGO CLAUS I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good ...
CAROLE KING I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of ...
GARY SHTEYNGART I loved you when love was Spring, and May,
Loved you when summer deepened into June,
and now when au...
V. SACKVILLE-WEST I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.
ELLEN PAGE That title makes me think of circumcision, which makes me think of testicles, which makes me think o...
MIKE EITEL That's like a word in the dictionary now. It doesn't surprise me, but it makes me kinda sad. And it ...
GRANT HESLOV [Jackson said he has a] love-hate ... I love it when he makes plays, hate it when he makes mistakes.
SEAN TAYLOR And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am almost 126 seasons old
I've been through warmth and cold
Each season casts a different array
Th...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but o...
WHOOPI GOLDBERG But witchy magic doesn’t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn’t really care. I...
FRANNY BILLINGSLEY I Am A Big Zero But My Creativity Makes
Me A Hero
DR. ARUN S SON Just talking about pizza makes me hungry ... but I never have cash.
KAVITA SINGH What makes me unique is that I'm normal.
SCOTTY MCCREERY Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
MASON COOLEY Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
CARINE ROITFELD I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes m...
LEA MICHELE My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
URSULA K. LEGUIN My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
URSULA K. LE GUIN In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing... sweet lovers love the spring.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She makes a coach look smart. She makes me look smarter than I am.
TOM ARMSTRONG Dorothy has a great turn of speed and makes use of open spaces to attack the opposition.
JENNY KING To autumn thee, to winter, spring and summer, do we commit; the rains in which grow the plants shall...
ATHARVA VEDA The word that almost makes me throw up is satin; damask makes me throw up.
BILLY BALDWIN Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.
WILLIAM R. ALGER A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
CHRIS BARBER It makes me happy. It makes coach happy. Most importantly, it makes them happy.
ANDRE ALLEN this book probably makes it seem as if I hate myself and everything I do. I mostly just hate every p...
JESSE ANDREWS She makes me have fun. I don't even realize I'm learning, but I am,
DAVID BERRY I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.
MATT GROENING I know you are a whore, but it makes no difference to me.
M.F. MOONZAJER What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill you
makes you stronger.].
FRIEDRICH NEITZCHE What truly makes me happy in life is discovering what truly makes me happy in life.
AARON SANTOS I loathe cheese, it makes me ill.
COLIN BAKER ...the spring, the summer,The chilling autumn, angry winter, changeTheir wonted liveries; and the ma...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.
CAROLYN CHUTE I love writing. It makes me so happy.
QUIARA ALEGRIA HUDES The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very ...
JOHN CUSACK Travel makes me feel like a bird,
Travel gives me a sense of freedom,
Travel makes me come...
ARCHANA CHAURASIA KAPOOR I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, w...
CINDY CRAWFORD Everything around me makes me miss you.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Tell me how bad I am... it makes me feel so good.
ANNE RICE You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you.
No one ...
ALEXANDER CHEE We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.
PROVERB That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much o...
THOMAS HARDY It's not my accent, but my brevity makes me stylish.
AMIT KALANTRI And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we ...
PETER TOSH its the passion in my heart that makes me crazy
its the passion in my learning that makes me intelli...
LARISSA CONSOLAGIO Having a million dollars makes me rich.
Knowing that God is all around me makes me rich beyond ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It makes me happy to work. And it makes me a better mother to be a happy person.
CHERYL HINES Oh dios mio, she makes me burn, she makes me need. She is etching herself into mi alma
P.T. MACIAS makes me so mad.
OPRAH WINFREY Politics makes me sick.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Nutrition makes me puke.
JIMMY PIERSALL It makes me happy.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excite...
BONNIE TYLER In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that make...
ALBERT CAMUS I kind of like things slightly out of tune. It makes me feel... intoxicated almost... but in a good ...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON When told that a certain woman would not hurt a fly Dorothy Parker retorted, "Not if it was buttoned...
DOROTHY PARKER What does not kill me makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE What does not kill me, makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE What does not kill me makes me stronger.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
JOHN MILTON
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...
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I'll not be left in sorrow.
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DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
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Infi...
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Four be the th...
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Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
After four...
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wheelchair.
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the clouds are low along the ridges,
and sweet's the air...
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A medley of extemporanea;
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A kiss, a frock, a rhyme -
I never said they feed my heart, DOROTHY PARKER Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
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I bask in dreams of suicide,
If cool my heart and high ...
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A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can...
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DOROTHY PARKER I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
afte...
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DOROTHY PARKER Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?
A: You can't hear an enzyme.
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DOROTHY PARKER This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it."
DOROTHY PARKER Tell him I was too fucking busy-- or vice versa.
DOROTHY PARKER Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
DOROTHY PARKER tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!
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DOROTHY PARKER Excuse my dust
DOROTHY PARKER Check enclosed.
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Do me a favor and ...
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DOROTHY PARKER Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much
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DOROTHY PARKER Byron and Shelley and Keats/ Were a trio of lyrical treats.
DOROTHY PARKER That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them.
DOROTHY PARKER "Cheque enclosed" are the two most beautiful words in the English language
DOROTHY PARKER She looks as new as a peeled egg
DOROTHY PARKER She looks like something that would eat its young
DOROTHY PARKER I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate C...
DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and un...
DOROTHY PARKER Too fucking busy, and vice versa. [Reply to her editor who was bugging her for her belated work whil...
DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who know the storm
DOROTHY PARKER People are more fun than any body
DOROTHY PARKER I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule...
DOROTHY PARKER I suppose that now if I ever wrote a play about myself I'd be sued for plagiarism
DOROTHY PARKER There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simp...
DOROTHY PARKER Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
DOROTHY PARKER Lips that taste of tears, they say/ Are the best for kissing.
DOROTHY PARKER I wish I could drink like a lady / I can take one or two at the most / Three and I'm under the table...
DOROTHY PARKER My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air wit...
DOROTHY PARKER The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
DOROTHY PARKER This is on me. [suggested for her tombstone]
DOROTHY PARKER Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to exci...
DOROTHY PARKER Money is only congealed snow.
DOROTHY PARKER Why, that dog is practically a Phi Beta Kappa. She can sit up and beg, and she can give her paw -- I...
DOROTHY PARKER I hate writing, I love having written.
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