Weneluke Quotes

#1. The boy Weneluke wove hand patterns with a string, working skillfully into abstract designs on all eight fingers: one of these represented a man and woman facing each other, and, by manipulating each sex, he arrived at a nice parody of copulation.

Peter Matthiessen

#2. I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

Gavin Bryars

#3. Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

Desmond Tutu

#4. Tim Burton ... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

Casper Van Dien

#5. You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

Saint Augustine

#6. English, as Charlton Laird has noted, is the only language that has, or needs, books of synonyms like Roget's Thesaurus. "Most speakers of other languages are not aware that such books exist" [The Miracle of Language, page 54].

Bill Bryson

#7. When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.

Chris LeDoux

#8. Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

James Weldon Johnson

#9. A girl should want to look good for herself, not for boys.

Lisi Harrison

#10. The best thing about being a Yankee is getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day. The worst thing about being a Yankee? Getting to watch Reggie Jackson play every day

Graig Nettles

#11. I'm yours. If you'll have me, I'm yours

H28

#12. I know the law ... I am it's greatest transgressor.

Roy Bean

#13. History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

Laurie Anderson

#14. I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

Stuart Symington

#15. I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from my hand. I liked how your fingers were always too long for your gloves.

Lauren DeStefano