Ekram Hossain Quotes

#1. He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

Andrew Jackson Downing

#2. I liked the drama of getting stoned.

Brion James

#3. The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

Ken Burns

#4. To be an adult is to be close to death.

Eva Hoffman

#5. Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

Duke Ellington

#6. The thrall in person may be free in soul

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#7. God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.

Rene Descartes

#8. When we don't tell those we love about what's really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.

Sharon Salzberg

#9. Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.

John Updike

#10. It's just weird because videos games let you be something that you're not; so does acting, but it puts you in, like, a real-situation-type thing or something totally different.

Ty Simpkins

#11. Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.

Frank Moore Colby

#12. We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

Laurie Colwin