Sixteenth Street Quotes

#1. I passed what I thought was a Halloween parade, which was disorienting since I was fairly sure this was May. When I stopped on the corner of Sixteenth Street and made a closer inspection it turned out to be something called a "Gay Pride Parade," which made my stomach turn.

Bret Easton Ellis

#2. Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.

Tyler Wagner

#3. Existence is never so miserable as when you have a taste of something beautiful," Lucifer said. "It serves to remind you of everything you can never have.

Lauren Kate

#4. Cancer changes your life," a patient wrote after her mastectomy. "It alters your habits. ... Everything becomes magnified.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#5. I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.

Steve Daines

#6. The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Herbert Simon

#7. Hence, the unity of Scripture is no minor matter: a fragmented Bible may actually produce theologically orthodox, morally upright, warmly pious idol worshipers!

Craig G. Bartholomew

#8. To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

Andre Malraux

#9. To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Gaston Bachelard

#10. Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

Earl Nightingale

#11. A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.

Grace Paley

#12. I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read me with eyes wide open; in order to stop imposing, in this realm, the conscious rhythm of my thought.

Andre Breton

#13. Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

Maurice Druon

#14. In any case, I was less unhappy than the teammate who wondered whether the purported tribute of being a "well-rounded detective" was a jibe around his weight.

Edward Conlon

#15. When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

George Will

#16. The antidote to entitlement is forgiveness in two directions.

Henry Cloud