50s Era Quotes

#1. That was the ballad of suburbia: give me loud to drown out the silence.

Stephanie Kuehnert

#2. But there's a road to hell for every good intention.

Neal Shusterman

#3. He wishes to be far away, either at sea or on the shore. In between, he realizes, is the most difficult of all places to be.

Jane Yolen

#4. Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.

Plutarch

#5. Salvation Is More About This Life than an Afterlife

Marcus J. Borg

#6. I love the Arctic Monkeys . Who doesn't? I'd love to see them live, but haven't got round to it yet. I never get to see bands because I'm never in the same town for more than two seconds.

Jack White

#7. Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#8. It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

B.B. King

#11. Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Paul Auster

#12. I go to great pains to find the best yogurt and granola.

Ezra Koenig

#13. Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

Anais Nin

#14. Before you can write a check, you must first make out a deposit slip; before you can draw money out of a bank, you must put money into a bank; before you are entitled to a living, you must give the world a life; if you want to make a first-class living, learn to give the world a first-class life.

William J.H. Boetcker