Cablegram Cocktail Quotes

#1. It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself.

Laura Hillenbrand

#2. I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.

Jayne Mansfield

#3. Success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#4. Siddhartha considered his circumstances. Thinking did not come easily to him. He didn't really feel like it, but he forced himself.

Hermann Hesse

#5. Come along, my brave one. Your wife and son want to see you.

Anne Stuart

#6. Some men enjoy the constant strife Of days with work and worry rife, But that is not my dream of life: I think such men are crazy. For me, a life with worries few, A job of nothing much to do, Just pelf enough to see me through: I fear that I am lazy.

James Weldon Johnson

#7. I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.

Rachel Bilson

#8. It had seemed like a good idea at the time, a sure-fire way to impress this girl, who was as cute as hell but wound tighter than one of his father's antique clocks.

Ros Baxter

#9. I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them.

L.M. Montgomery

#10. But with that burst of the fairness that he can never repress, he admits that conversion is unlikely as long as Christians exclude Jews from the community: There must be first conversing with them before there can be converting them.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#11. I wanted to be Stan Laurel, then I wanted to be Fred Astaire and then Captain Kangaroo. I actually started out as a radio announcer when I was 17 and never left the business, so that's literally 70 years.

Dick Van Dyke

#12. Life is amazing, don't wreck yourself trying to figure it out, cause its just that simple.

Alysha Millet