Volstead Bar Quotes

#1. Excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?

T. S. Eliot

#3. I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself, I wanted us to be included in the popular mainstream of entertainment fiction.

Christopher Rice

#4. I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Bette Davis

#5. Commit yourself to a passion that moves you.

Bill Strickland

#6. When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth - Persian Proverb

Jennifer Fallon

#7. New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.

John Updike

#8. As I already said, they didn't look like much
but beauty's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?

Kate Morton