Philammon Quotes

#1. In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.

Charles Kingsley

#2. The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

Brian Boitano

#3. Her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin.

Marcel Proust

#4. All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

Sallust

#5. It's not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it's the people in your life that tell you the truth that count.

Derek Preston

#6. What kind of person does it make me if I accept words I know are lies? Because I know they are. He's absolutely honest with me about everything but loyalty.

Mary Elizabeth

#7. On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?

William J. Clinton

#8. I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.

Jennifer Beals

#9. Where the signposts end, the trail begins.

Marty Rubin