Splendide 2000 Quotes

#1. September had only had coffee once, when her Aunt Margaret had snuck her a sip while her mother wasn't looking. It tasted bitter, but wild and strange. She rather wanted to taste it again.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

Jonny Lang

#3. Nobody can be set free from a problem until they're willing to admit they have one.

Joyce Meyer

#4. The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

Mason Cooley

#5. The Empress Marie-Louise once asked me if I believed in ghosts.
'I find it hard to believe in something I've never seen,' I told her.
But perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.

Michelle Moran

#6. The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

Greg Iles

#7. I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

Ed Speleers

#8. ...like two children who had, for the first time, discovered someone who shared their thoughts...

Ronald Everett Capps

#9. To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.

Heber J. Grant

#10. A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

Victor Hugo

#11. Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate,
I find under the boughs of love and hate,
In all poor foolish things that live a day,
Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

W.B.Yeats

#12. The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about? ... Controversies about ... teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.

Reuben Hersh