Scaffoldings Quotes

#1. To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

Camille Paglia

#3. Movies are very subjective.

Jeff Bridges

#4. The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#5. A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist.

Edward Abbey

#6. The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

Mark Millar

#7. (So ... what are you thinking?)
About life. How strange it is, how one decision can affect so many people for all of time.

Karen Kingsbury

#8. When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

Simon Van Booy

#9. As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did as I was told, saying nothing. My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought.

Haruki Murakami

#10. I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.

Matt Holliday

#11. Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#12. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

Regina Brett

#13. Afterward I always kiss her, my baby, and look into her clear eyes that know everything about me, and want me to be her daddy anyway.

Angela Johnson

#14. I'm going to quit writing.

Sidney Poitier

#15. The Soviet response was silence, followed by bellicose denial, followed by efforts to derail the international investigation. It was eight years after the collapse of the Soviet Union that Russia acknowledged the truth.

Anonymous