Fanfares Quotes

#1. History didn't greet us with triumphal fanfares: - it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells and bitter bread.

Wislawa Szymborska

#2. There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another

Kathleen Tessaro

#3. Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. I make no profit / like the sun
I burn and burn

Margaret Atwood

#5. You groped my bum!"
"It was an accident."
"It was not. You haven't done anything accidental with that hand since you were twelve."
"Fifteen, Mabes. You make me sound like some kind of infant sex prodigy.

Lily Morton

#6. Make your company stock a consumer product. When consumers buy stock in your company, they'll never buy a competitive product. You've linked their financial future to yours.

Faith Popcorn

#7. A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#8. I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor ... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman

Ian Paisley

#11. Rooted in the word 'history' is 'story.' And America's story is exceptional. It's amazing. Younger students should learn that we have always been and continue to be a land of immigrants - a land committed to bold new ideas.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#12. Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

John O'Hara

#13. My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

Felicity Kendal

#14. The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Wernher Von Braun

#15. Eat food. Not much. Mostly plants.

Alan C. Logan

#16. Just as a whole world of beauty can be discovered in one flower, so the great grace of God can be tasted in one small moment Just as no great travels are necessary to see the beauty of creation, so no great ecstasies are needed to discover the love of God.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#17. We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

R.A. Salvatore