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When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon! — Alexandra Paul

Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one. — Abbi Glines

I was a boss on 'Cavemen.' That was portentous. — Stephanie Courtney

We gazed at the constellations, praising the portentous architecture of the sky with trite formulas. — Elena Ferrante

She pulled off the highway and quickly changed into the burkha. — Dianne Harman

Black and portentous must this humour46 prove, Unless good counsel may the cause remove. [140] Benvolio — William Shakespeare

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I know now, like drumbeats. Portentous, and a little sinister, like tympani strikes at the start of a gloomy symphony. Shostakovich, maybe. — Lee Child

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast; Is that portentous phrase, I told you so. — Lord Byron

It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course — Orson Scott Card

Those twin beliefs give rise not to a meek acquiescence to injustice in the world but to a robust determination to oppose it. English — N. T. Wright

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. — Nicholas Sparks

So it is best for you to withdraw into the world of your portents, for there at least you can decide yourself how portentous they are. — Umberto Eco

Though I no longer presumed to have a conscience, I have never once lacked feelings. — Lyndsay Faye

You become a candidate for God's love when you are rejected by people — Sunday Adelaja

All beyond this is portentous and fabulous, inhabited by poets and mythologers, and there is nothing true or certain. — Plutarch

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet. — Plato

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out. — George Brett

Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong — Larry Winget

For love deceives the best of woman kind. — Homer

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released. — Thomas Bangalter

Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,
Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine — Aleister Crowley

In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow. — Francis Parkman

Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines. — Edward Young