Schleps Quotes

#1. Oh give us a grim Tuesday of December, with the hardwind taking schleps at our heads, and the rain coming slantways off that hideous fucking ocean, and the grapes nearly frozen off us, and dirty ice caked up top of the puddles, and we are not happy, exactly, but satisfied in our despair.

Kevin Barry

#2. Writing is the supreme solace.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. The White House announced on Monday the Prime Minister of Australia will visit President Bush in September. We have a lot in common. Australia started out as a prison colony, while the United States has evolved into one.

Argus Hamilton

#4. Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things. They wonder how the snowplough driver gets to work, or how the makers of dictionaries look up the spelling of words.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.

Jennifer Capriati

#6. You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#7. When he was rough, my body soared. When he was gentle, he slayed me.

Juliette Cross

#8. Forget anything after, the 1986 Turbo cars really were rockets, and to handle them I really think you had to be a man

Gerhard Berger

#9. I consider myself a free man and a citizen of the world.

Gerard Depardieu

#10. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

Herman Melville