Caryn Elaine Quotes

#1. The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.

Christina Rossetti

#2. To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs
but a tribute nevertheless.

George Steiner

#3. British garden history is best understood as a small incident in the histories of ideas, design and technology.

Tom Turner

#4. Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. If I had a dreamcatcher when I was thirteen, it would have spent many long days in the dryer.

Dana Gould

#6. To be able to be there first, I love the pioneer thing. It's exciting to me. And they pay full rate, they're really nice, they support the work, and they said yes. What could be bad? It's the Wild West. You can do what you want.

Jenji Kohan

#7. A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#8. Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

David Byrne

#9. I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless.

George Perle

#10. Connor couldn't be sure, but he thought he heard him mumble, First Dean, then McCall. These boys are dropping like flies.

Robin Bielman