Theurer Auction Quotes

#1. I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

Peter Hammill

#2. None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.

Dan Buettner

#3. We must move on, of course. There's no point in hankering after distant pleasures and lost picture palaces. But there's no harm in indulging in a little nostalgia. What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past? And

Ruskin Bond

#4. It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.

Hermann E. Ott

#5. The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an eternity pouring it forth in a glance, the fragment of a sentence, to that part of him that cherished all beauty and all illusion.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. Wars come and wars go,' he said. 'Things change, but the carousel is always here. It reminds people of the good times.

Glenda Millard

#7. You are living far too much in the realms of your head. That is an ugly, mean, scary place to be. I am not just saying your head is nasty, everyone's head is. You need to vacate that premise immediately and start living in your heart. Your heart is a much nicer social venue.

Lauren Roedy Vaughn

#8. And from that time on I bathed in the Poem
Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk,
Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam,
A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.

Arthur Rimbaud

#9. Don't you want to understand what made her such a psychotic bitch?

Rebecca Donovan

#10. I have people trying to kill me. A giraffe is low on my list of disturbances.

Janet Evanovich

#11. When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

Francis Turner Palgrave

#12. The concept of deferred gratification, or sacrificing now to save for the future, can be helpful in setting aside money in a retirement account for old age. It can also serve as an effective rationalization for life avoidance.

Chris Guillebeau