Beauvoir Park Quotes

#1. If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Clint Eastwood

#2. To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

Harry S. Truman

#3. If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details ... real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.

Anna Quindlen

#4. Trudging alone along that black road, sometimes in the teeth of wind and rain, and watching the white distant gleam of convolvulus through the park railings, gave me an exhilarating sensation of adventure.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream ...

Lilian Whiting

#6. Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

Susan Minot

#7. She made it plain that her fondest wish was to have a grandbaby. Whenever fat Irene would pick up the baby, which was not too often, Mrs. Hoge would declare, "Irene, you don't know how becoming that looks." As if someone ought to have a kid because it looked good on them.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure ... and I liked it.'

Ryan Seacrest

#9. Worshiping the earth is more fun than going to church. It's also closer.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. Toby Keith, when you wake up tomorrow there's still going to be liberals in the world, mexicans and blacks, Muslims and Jews and high school graduates ... and everyone else who hates your music.

Maureen McCormick

#11. I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

Alison Goodman

#12. Just before I drop into a chair in my English classroom I pick up my phone and send Nolan a text.
"What if there's a day when I can't be there with my mom when she's at home?"
I don't even have to wait thirty seconds before he sends his reply:
"Then I'll be there

Paige McKenzie

#13. Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

Michael Morpurgo

#14. We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you bet on God's valuing dishonestly faked belief (or even honest belief) over honest scepticism?

Richard Dawkins

#15. I trained in Toronto with a private acting teacher, who was wonderful, for years growing up.

Megan Park