Billeted Quotes

#1. Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#2. Gradually I slid into the persuasion that these troubles of mine touching the scrivener, had been all predestinated from eternity, and Bartleby was billeted upon me for some mysterious purpose of an all-wise Providence, which it was not for a mere mortal like me to fathom.

Herman Melville

#3. Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.

Katherine Applegate

#4. There was no amazement, but only an impression of delightful rightness, of being reminded of happy things that had in some strange way been overlooked.

H.G.Wells

#5. Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Oscar Wilde

#6. ( ... ) unkept secrets always manage to escape, under a door, through a keyhole or an open window, until everyon knows everything and nobody knows how ... ( ... )

Salman Rushdie

#7. Uh-huh," I said. "Because all you mad, evil scientists sit around whipping up batches of Pillsbury's finest during your coffee breaks. I mean, this is pathetic.

James Patterson

#8. You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.

Bess Truman

#9. Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

Aaron Sorkin

#10. He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

Sophie Swetchine

#11. I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

Sheldon Harnick