Grandmothers Memoriam Quotes

#1. It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reality of life. It was like expecting to be able to write a symphony because you had once read a handbook of composition.

Julian Barnes

#2. The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.

Robert Dallek

#3. An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Thomas Mann

#4. The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.

Evan Esar

#5. I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

Ross Macdonald

#6. Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

Stephen King

#7. Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness:
Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds.

Everett Ruess

#8. Positive thought expands the halo of mind energy.

Betty Shine

#9. Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.

Jon Foreman

#10. She moved like water, graceful and soft and lovely. Every part of me wanted to stick out my foot and trip her, just to see her stumble.

Cassandra Rose Clarke