Chemisette Victorian Quotes

#1. Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Joyce Cary

#3. If we'd done this my way,' Garrett went on, 'We'd have been here much earlier.'
'And drunk, most likely,' said Maiev.
'You say "drunk," I say "happy",' Garrett shrugged.

Grant Smuts

#4. Valek smiled. "Good. First, send Kade a reply, asking
him not to come." He pointed at the unopened letter on the table. I had forgotten about it. Sealed with wax, the message appeared
to be secured. Valek shrugged. "I was bored.

Maria V. Snyder

#5. I needed another soda. I'd only had six since breakfast.

Meg Cabot

#6. The reasons leading to the origin of the problem aren't always simple, but the solution always is.

Jamie McGuire

#7. Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

Plato

#8. Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Blaise Pascal

#9. Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

John Frusciante

#10. My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.

Kathleen Turner

#11. The sum of his life was a unique melody, hauntingly beautiful and powerful.

Ann Marston