Lustrum's Quotes

#1. Think not that delight and understanding dwell just across the Karthian hills, or in any spot thou canst find in a day's, or a year's, or a lustrum's journey.

H.P. Lovecraft

#2. Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.

Beah Richards

#3. Is it always this miserable saying goodbye?

Rachel Robinson

#4. The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

Cesare Pavese

#5. He says "You are my property" and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns.

Malak El Halabi

#6. No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

Roald Dahl

#7. There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.

Barney Frank

#8. And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.

Alicia Keys

#9. Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#10. What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#11. Mickey Mantle was baseball.

Bob Costas

#12. In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.

Julia Child

#13. The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Billy Higgins