John Howard Payne Quotes

#1. There's no place like home, there's no place like home

John Howard Payne

#2. Now they were satisfied to express their individuality through which Rogers they preferred at the Saturday matinee: Ginger or Roy or Buck. America may be the land of opportunity, but in New York it's the shot at conformity that pulls them through the door

Amor Towles

#3. Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

Blaise Pascal

#4. Always be closing.

David Mamet

#5. When things are bad, we take a bit of comfort in the thought that they could always be WORSE. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get BETTER.' - Malcolm S. Forbes.

Rachel Renee Russell

#6. The irony of instant gratification is that it leaves such lasting scars.

Heather King

#7. These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks ... but Fala does resent them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#8. Love is a choice, isn't it?" she said softly. "Sometimes we can only do so much.

Jennifer Probst

#9. An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

John Howard Payne

#10. Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.

Lisa Unger

#11. The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

Rita Dove

#12. Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.

Henri Nouwen

#13. Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on ... Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than befor

James W. Sire

#14. Sometimes, teachers must be hard. People must be given a hard message because life is hard, and dying is hard,

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

Master P

#16. When you would think,
"what was the use of it,"
you'll remember
something you can't grasp
and you'll wonder
what it was.

Hilda Doolittle

#17. It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Bill Vaughan