Quotes For Fire Department Signs

#1. I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.

David

#2. Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.

Fannie Hurst

#3. The Internet right now is another way to get exposure. You depend on that because they give you press, and if it's successful it gets into a lot of festivals.

Philipp Wolter

#4. What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.

Patti LuPone

#5. Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

Bradford Winters

#6. Everything, she wanted to scream at him, was a question of safety. All human endeavor bent itself to the same lost cause. Being kept inside a pumpkin shell your whole life was no guarantee against getting flung into space.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

Kate Zambreno

#8. We all have a choir to preach to; people who will receive and believe immediately, and people who will spread the word. However, those of us who are messengers want to reach those in need of a change of heart and mind. We need the choir to grow.

Robin Caldwell

#9. how to achieve a reasonable synthesis between the forces that drive a person to seek individual expression and those that drive him to comply with the wishes of others.

Kevin Ashton

#10. For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.

Mary Livermore

#11. This is for you, for us. I wanted a tattoo of you on my skin, because I can't show you the one you've already left on my heart.

Gina L. Maxwell

#12. I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale's.

Mickey Drexler