Little Nyc Ode Quotes

#1. Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

Tom Perrotta

#2. My father is a man with a great capacity for love and a huge heart, which has led him to be somewhat of a lothario, but at the same time, he's genuine. He's far more loving and kind than I could ever be. As selfish as he is, he is an extremely giving person. He's just 100 percent in every direction.

Jake Busey

#3. I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

Edward Albee

#4. Am I to admire a man who injures me in an awkward and mistaken attempt to protect me, and to despise a man who to earn a good income performs for me some great and lasting service?

George J. Stigler

#5. The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. He left without a smile, but he placed something in my chest, a hollow thing that left no room for the hope and happiness that had been condensing there.

Jan Ellison

#7. I'm a Jersey girl, no one can knock me down

Teresa Giudice

#8. Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.

Bob Hope

#9. Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me.

D.G. Kaye

#10. Suppose there was no anger, no profanity, no lying, no grumbling or complaining; suppose there were no dirty stories told, no unjust criticism - what a different world this would be!

Billy Graham

#11. I sleep on a tar roof
scream my songs
into lazy floods of stars ...
a white powder paddles through blood and heart
and the returns
pure and easy ...
This city is on my side.

Jim Carroll

#12. I've always been very interested in ensemble work. One reason why I don't go out and do a stand-up act is that I did it once and I found it unsatisfying. I don't really like being out there by myself. I like reacting with other people.

Paul Reubens

#13. It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

Charles Darwin

#14. None of this means anything. Anything of significance, that is. I am just amusing myself, musing, losing myself in a welter of words. For words in here are a form of luxury, of sensuousness, they are all we have been allowed to keep of the rich, wasteful world from which we are shut away.

John Banville

#15. Can't do better until I know better!

Benjamin Radford

#16. [History is] the very servant of the servants of God, the drudge of all the drudges.

Herbert Butterfield