Lexicographer Partridge Quotes

#1. The Ancients understood the omnipotence of the underside of things.

Louis Pasteur

#2. The bear and I --
we rise like a windstorm
to witness these old trees talk.

Vivian Demuth

#3. If you live a righteous life, then you should be exalted above situations and circumstances in life

Sunday Adelaja

#4. I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.

Leo Kottke

#5. The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

Joe Abercrombie

#6. When you said no time for love,
I heard needy expression of love.

Toba Beta

#7. Ah! he would have found it out fast enough if she had been nice-looking. The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in another.

Wilkie Collins

#8. I have a good face for what I do.

Rufus Wainwright

#9. Those who created the structure of the Episcopal Church were, in many cases, the same individuals who had framed and adopted the Constitution of the United States only a few years earlier, so it is not surprising that our structure is very similar.

John H. Westerhoff III

#10. Stripping away the scientific language, what you find is that our most eminent minds agree that on the subatomic and quantum scales the universe is full of invisible energies that not only affect our reality, but on a fundamental scale create and support it.

Rak Razam

#11. He hasn't really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he's starting to, a little.

Colleen Chen

#12. If you do some wonderful service and if you tell people what you did in a boastful way, it nullifies the credit of your service, may not be in the eternal platform, but in your conscious condition you will not be able to reap the benefits of that service.

Radhanath Swami

#13. Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

Beth Kephart

#14. My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

Christopher Durang

#15. And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

Peter David