Sad And Alone Sayings

#1. True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Albert Camus

#2. I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before they've even opened it, treat it with a 'been there, done that' attitude. I know I did. It took me years to re-open the novel and see how much I'd missed.

Susan Choi

#3. I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

Ricky Williams

#4. If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication.

Kofi Annan

#5. It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

Mark Twain

#6. Violet's eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, "What is wrong with these people?

Amy Ewing

#7. The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

Julia Alvarez

#8. We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn't pay their mortgages because of $4 a gallon gasoline.

Rick Santorum

#9. Ride the air In whirlwind.

John Milton

#10. Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

Stanley Donen