Bassum Hill Quotes

#1. There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

Joseph Addison

#2. America would still be an unnamed continent full of migratory tribes chasing the rear end of a buffalo every time their stomachs growled.

Ann Coulter

#3. How many schoolteachers were aware of what they actually were a part of? Surely a number close to zero. In schoolteaching, as in hamburger-flipping, the paycheck is the decisive ingredient. No insult is meant, at bottom this is what realpolitik means. We all have to eat.

John Taylor Gatto

#4. What are more delightful than one's emotions when approaching a trout stream for the initial cast?

Nash Buckingham

#5. Money can't buy you back the love that you had then

Taylor Swift

#6. At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

Marian McPartland

#7. Ah God, what has man done to man? What have the leaders of men been doing to their fellow men? They have reduced them to less than humanness; and now there can be no fellowship any more! It is just a nightmare.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial ... Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost ... I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. Once I've ascertained that I'm safe and I'm with a director who is taking care of me, then I'm able to go and do what I need to do and know it's not me, it's the story.

Julianne Moore

#10. We often fail to recognize our greatest godsend simply because it comes bundled in suffering.

Jessica Dotta

#11. Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

Louise Fitzhugh

#12. It is how we grieve, that travels us into healthy recovery states

S.L. Northey

#13. I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry about something I will try to think about something funny about it to lighten the load of the anger and cope with the anger.

Margaret Cho

#14. I didn't know which direction I was going in. I just went on walking and calling out, walking and calling; and each time I called, I would stop and listen. But no answer came.

Roald Dahl