Lenten Recollection Quotes

#1. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

Cindy Crawford

#2. Our souls bonded. His pleasure was my ecstasy. My blood pumped in his heart.

Maria V. Snyder

#3. You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

Sheila Heti

#4. The DA is the only party in South Africa that has grown in every national election and that trend must continue, and it must accelerate, because South Africa is in a race against time to save our democracy.

Helen Zille

#5. The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.

Robert Aris Willmott

#6. Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.

Oliver Hazard Perry

#7. I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.

Jonny Wilkinson

#8. When it hurts,' wrote the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, 'we return to the banks of certain rivers,

Olivia Laing

#9. Man's capacity to dig himself in, to secrete a shell, to build around himself a tenuous barrier of defence, even in apparently desperate circumstances, is astonishing and merits a serious study.

Primo Levi

#10. Men have discovered their distinctive virtues and vices through grappling with the perennial dilemmas and demands of love, courage, pride, family, and country-the five paths whose proper ordering gives us the key to the secret of happiness for a man.

Waller R Newell

#11. I think that maybe I do want to learn to play"
... "Oh, I think you're quite adept at playing already, Tesoro."
"No." She giggled. "An instrument."
"I'm allowing that joke to pass. Too obvious.

Elizabeth Hunter

#12. A movie is something you see, cinema is something that's made.

Steven Soderbergh

#13. But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

Sheryl Sandberg