Evelyn Rothschild Quotes

#1. Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

Josh James Riebock

#2. To Father Rothschild no passage was worse than any other. He thought of the sufferings of the saints, the mutability of human nature, the Four Last Things, and between whiles repeated snatches of the penitential psalms.

Evelyn Waugh

#3. Thinking to be tactful and adroit, the woman stood

Yasunari Kawabata

#4. It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#5. The first truly autumnal day of the new season. Soft, pretty scarves looped necks, skinny jeans encased skinny and not-so-skinny thighs, spike-heeled boots tapped across the playground.

Liane Moriarty

#6. I also get a perverse pleasure from correcting students who refer to an important piece of data or write that this data is important. (Data is the plural of datum, I tell them, so one ought to say, The datum is important; The data are important.) Yet

Steven Pinker

#7. A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.

Tony Kushner

#8. God's time is slow, patient, and kind and welcomes friendship; it is a way of being in the fullness of time that is not determined by productivity, success, or linear movements toward personal goals. It is a way of love, a way of the heart.

John Swinton

#9. Nations, no matter how small and unmeritorious, cannot be annihilated. They may be put down and even divided up, and their name erased from the roll of nations; but the generic spark is there, and will flame up to the end of time distinct and inextinguishable!

W.C. Corsan

#10. You have sexual tendencies that are not normal, and you should be ashamed of them.

Scott Dikkers

#11. Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

John Sununu

#12. Today, I donated all my organs for use and research..
I am feeling strangely 'useful

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#13. The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#14. There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.

Joel Stein

#15. My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.

Gerard Depardieu