Customarily Yours Quotes

#1. Some people think we're made of flesh and blood and bones. Scientists say we're made of atoms. But I think we are made of stories. When we die, that's what people remember, the stories of our lives and the stories that we told.

Ruth Stotter

#2. Of the four poets with whom Bascomb was customarily grouped one had shot himself, one had drowned himself, one had hanged himself, and the fourth had died of delirium tremens.

John Cheever

#3. There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#4. Complicated is when you can't * with and can't * without .!

Kelvin Trambadiya

#5. The soul was not cured,
it was as full as a clothes closet
of dresses that did not fit.

Anne Sexton

#6. another motive as well - namely, to preserve her voice, which had a quality of expressiveness I have rarely encountered. Customarily she spoke with a soft tone, as one might expect of a woman who has made a career of entertaining men.

Arthur Golden

#7. A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend.

J.K. Rowling

#9. The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice
and always has been.

Mark Twain

#10. The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.

Jesse Jackson

#11. Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

Dora Russell

#12. Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

Susan Sontag

#13. The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.

Peg Bracken

#14. Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Dale Spender

#15. Although these early Christian authors subordinated science and the study of nature to the needs of religion, they often indicated an interest in nature, as did Basil, that transcended the mere ancillary status that the study of nature was customarily accorded.

Edward Grant

#16. A river passing through a landscape catches the world and gives it back redoubled: a shifting, glinting world more mysterious than the one we customarily inhabit. Rivers run through our civilisations like strings through beads,

Olivia Laing

#17. Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.

Ann Landers

#18. Reverend Fathers, my letters do not customarily follow one another so closely, nor are they usually so extensive. The little time I have had has caused both. I have made this one longer only because I have not had the leisure of making it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

#19. Serenades," he said, "are customarily performed under moonslight, or have fashions here changed?"
"I don't know," I said. "No one's serenaded me, and as for my serenading anyone else, even if I wanted to, which I don't, my singing voice sounds like a sick crow.

Sherwood Smith

#20. The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

Muhammad Iqbal