Congreve Rocket Quotes

#1. Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist ... why would you want to?

Dave Sim

#2. This is life. It's messy and unpredictable, full of wonderful surprises and mind.numbing disappointment. the uncertainty of it all is why I hide, trying to avoid all the pain and the heartache.

Denise Grover Swank

#3. Do you know your Bible?'
'Uh, not very well.'
'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#5. If it is true that men only want one thing, Jane asked herself, is it perhaps just to be left to themselves with their soap animals or some other harmless little trifle?

Barbara Pym

#6. We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.

Travis Barker

#7. It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

Todd Rundgren

#8. It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.

Dana Perino

#9. You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

Jenny Offill

#10. The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Isabella Bird

#11. Some eschew wine for their religion; others just don't cotton to it. A slew of Americans consider wine a fancy-schmancy treat for special occasions. They do not understand the concept of daily wine. It's as though you insisted on confetti and a swing-band at every meal.

Jennifer Rosen

#12. In a hot greenish body of water
slowly slides
A gesture a sigh a moan
will provoke his wild teeth
("Silver Clasp")

Paul Dermee

#13. I hope they never have to go through the kind of soul searching that I am going through.

Beatrice Sparks