Kimple Translucents Quotes

#1. My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft wind. The weather was perfect that summer. No storms. Blue skies and just the right amount of wind every day. The sailors were in heaven.

Katherine Hall Page

#2. Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#3. I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

Penelope Lively

#4. The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat, clean, quite solvent business.

William Faulkner

#5. She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.

Joseph Fink

#6. I used to watch 'The Apprentice' all the time and I thought Bill was a fox. That was that, we didn't see each other for years, and then we saw each other and 45 minutes after the cameras stopped rolling, we were still talking.

Giuliana Rancic

#7. Whoever stands for 'one China' will get our support. We can have talks with them, and our talks will cover anything.

Zhu Rongji

#8. In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Paul Keating

#9. My sermon on the meaning of the manna in the wilderness can be adapted to almost any occasion, joyful, or, as in the present case, distressing. [All sigh.] I have preached it at harvest celebrations, christenings, confirmations, on days of humiliation and festal days.

Oscar Wilde

#10. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James