Quotes About Quotes Camelot 2011

#1. What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore.

Lauren Kate

#3. It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.

Louise Erdrich

#4. What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?

Nuala O'Faolain

#5. Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.

Ian McEwan

#6. Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.

John Lennon

#7. In a relationship you have to communicate, which means listening to her talk. Ladies, you fake orgasms. We fake listening.

Alonzo Bodden

#8. Trumpets! Can you bring your ... uh ... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

Jaco Pastorius

#9. Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.

Amin Maalouf

#10. At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

Adepero Oduye

#11. He doesn't look like a gangster, but then he's not the office worker type, either ... some kind of entrepreneur maybe, or, - wait, I've got it! He looks like he writes manga! Either that or a chiropractor, I guess.

Banana Yoshimoto

#12. The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

Robert Motherwell

#13. When everyone in the classroom, teacher and students, recognizes that they are responsible for creating a learning community together, learning is at its most meaningful and useful.

Bell Hooks

#14. Fear was a reminder that even the insubstantial could kill. But insubstantial meant it had no shape. It couldn't be conquered or tamed or avoided. Only moved through, with force and will.

Roshani Chokshi

#15. Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.

Scipio Africanus