Channary Thou Quotes

#1. A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Alan Ayckbourn

#2. Contemporary medical technology is not an advancement in medicine- it indicates the failure of Caucasian medical science and is a sign of ignorance. Technology cannot replace the human ability to diagnose disease by looking, touching and smelling to perform treatments without drugs.

Llaila Afrika

#3. Nothing ever goes back to normal. All that happens is your concept of normal changes.

Allison Van Diepen

#4. Who are our basic enemies? This is a secret, unknown even to these basic enemies. - Xaviar Skolcamp, Over-Centennial Fellow of the Institute, indulgently, in response to a journalist's too-searching question

Jack Vance

#5. Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.

Mary Schmich

#6. Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.

Nigel Barker

#7. I think turning fifty means you want to keep everything you already have, but you also want everything you haven't managed to get yet, too. Before it's too late.

Claire Cook

#8. There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal.

Carolina Nairne

#9. I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.

Mercedes McCambridge

#10. The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

Donald Rumsfeld

#11. Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.

Frederick Lenz

#12. I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#13. No one can take better care of you than you yourself.

Lois P Frankel

#14. You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.

Clive Davis

#15. Again, all any heart has ever said, and just as the word is said the moment is gone, so there is not even any sort of promise in it.

Marilynne Robinson