Moon And Sixpence Quotes

#1. Some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.

W. Somerset Maugham

#2. But now Cathy had created the restlessness, the indignation, the beginnings of that shameful need to clamber aboard my spavined white steed, knock the rust off the armor, tilt the crooked old lance and shout huzzah. Sleep immediately followed decision.

John D. MacDonald

#3. What evidence do you have that you know Jesus?

Francis Chan

#4. The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

C.D. Wright

#5. Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Erik Erikson

#6. By nineteen, I had found my look. Oversize T-shirts, bike shorts, and wrestling shoes. To prevent the silhouette from being too baggy, I would cinch it at the waist with my fanny pack.

Tina Fey

#7. Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.

Dan Buettner

#8. The brink of insanity wasn't for wussies.

Cecy Robson

#9. Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence.

Katherine Mansfield

#10. Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

Gary Bauer

#11. He stood more than a foot taller than I did, his shoulders like a football player's pads, arms corded thick. He was huge, I realized. Kyle had been lean and toned. Colton was ... something else. Obviously powerful. Hard. Primal.

Jasinda Wilder

#12. To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the
personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am
willing to excuse a thousand faults.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. The message growth rate in Brazil - it's not like a hockey stick: it's like a vertical line.

Jan Koum

#14. Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

Molly Haskell

#15. His brows rose. "And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?"
"I'm a governess," she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

Julia Quinn