Beames Trestle Quotes

#1. Just when you think there isn't any point to life - "he said, "then, all of a sudden, you realize that you are being aimed right straight at something.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

Nick Hornby

#3. Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#4. This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#5. He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).

George Herbert

#6. With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

Daniel Radcliffe

#7. They're saying President Obama doesn't have any friends. The problem is that he can't get Congress to approve one.

David Letterman

#8. I have always loved Broadway.

Melissa Etheridge

#9. There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

Frank Chodorov

#10. The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.

John Cheever

#11. Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

Gilbert Sorrentino