Yellow Hardwood Floors Quotes

#1. Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Jeremy Taylor

#2. What arguments, what persuasions can I make use of, with any prospect of success, to such a woman as Madame Duval? ... She is too ignorant for instruction, too obstinate for entreaty, and too weak for reason.

Fanny Burney

#3. You are an enemy of the Church, Lee Scoresby. By their fruits shall ye know them.

Philip Pullman

#4. A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Ayn Rand

#5. I was to be a justifier, my task would be to deny the unpredictable human element of all Harlem so that they could ignore it when it in any way interfered with their plans.

Ralph Ellison

#6. Even if you do not feel it now, there is pleasure to be had from being a decent person.

Jojo Moyes

#7. My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

Joe Lhota

#8. They looked at one another, amazed. this thing they had never really believed in was coming true.

John Steinbeck