12547 Quotes & Sayings

On a day of burial there is no perspective
for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was
to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Doggone thing could make a preacher cuss." I yanked out the muffin pan and slammed the oven shut. — Lois Lavrisa

Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere. — Margaret Wise Brown

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. — David Bailey

A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it. — Markus Zusak

You can't kill a minuet de la coeur. You may shut up the music book ... but surely the minuet
the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars, even as our minuet of the Hessian bathing places must be stepping itself still. — Ford Madox Ford

It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too. — Sharon Law Tucker

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier. — Mary Renault

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without. — Anna Julia Cooper