Seaports In Connecticut Quotes

#1. Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.

Ilka Chase

#2. All of the questions that had been open when my head had hit the pillow were still pending. But in the intervening hours, my brain had been changing to fit the new shape of my world. I guess that's why we can't do anything else when we're sleeping: it's when we work hardest.

Neal Stephenson

#3. It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

Lauren Oliver

#4. Sometimes, it becomes necessary for you to hit the bottom, and hit really hard that it awakens you.

Frederick Espiritu

#5. Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

Francois Fenelon

#6. He that will be surety, shall pay.

George Herbert

#7. It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.

Arundhati Roy

#8. All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.

Joseph Jackson