Overleden Vriendin Quotes

#1. She has assisted at more than one Birth, has endur'd a hard-drinking and quarrelsome troop of Men-Folk, - who is this unfamily'd man in a Frock to call her child?

Thomas Pynchon

#2. I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"

Steven Soderbergh

#3. The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

John Ciardi

#4. Houses are like lots of Rooms stuck together, TV persons stay in them mostly but sometimes they go in their outsides and weather happens to them.

Emma Donoghue

#5. Eleanor-wait-I love you.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.

Allan Frewin Jones

#7. My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

Christopher Walken

#8. The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".

George Henry Lewes

#9. A dead martyr can be manipulated by his heirs; a living one is apt to drag his colleagues to the extremes dictated by the contingent pressures of his martyrdom.

John Peter Nettl

#10. Because you thought love was just gonna be there. You weren't taught that it had to be made, it had to be mixed, kneaded, recycled. Over and over, you have to keep creating it. Over and over with everyone you love. Over and over.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#11. A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."

Plutarch

#12. When in doubt, resort to animation.

Michael Palin

#13. A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.

Parul Wadhwa

#14. And when you're poor, you grow up fast.

Billie Holiday

#15. People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

Wade Guyton