Schalk Brits Quotes

#1. He stood and watched the night push itself into the bar and the light push it back out.

David Berman

#2. He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect explicitness is not a necessary virtue.

Arthur Symons

#3. Sir Peter Medawar, an eminent British biologist who received a Nobel Prize the same year as Macfarlane Burnet, defined a virus as a piece of bad news wrapped up in a protein.

David Quammen

#4. Struggling woman, as yet only half his victim, that the outward guise of purity was but a lie, and that, if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne's?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.

Anthony Horowitz

#6. I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. Humbledrum farted mournfully, three distinct notes.

Lev Grossman

#8. My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.

Filo Tiatia

#9. I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I'd have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.

Fred Astaire

#10. Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

Anna Quindlen

#11. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

#12. Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'
... 'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. Most US presidents since World War II have led military actions without a declaration of war by Congress, though most, if not all, have properly consulted and sought support from Congress. That is the wise thing to do.

Donald Rumsfeld

#14. Within a week, I knew the subway systems,

Kristan Higgins