1642 Estate Quotes & Sayings

He had never smoked but then had he ever loved? Life made him love and love made him smoke. — Faraaz Kazi

Death does not linger where he is defeated. — Anita Diamant

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future. — Neal Shusterman

When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography. — Iveta Cherneva

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker — Terry Pratchett

Nothing could be more comfortable than writing about the ballet from books. A ballet he had never seen was an art in another world. It was an unrivaled armchair reverie, a lyric from some paradise. He called his work research, but it was actually free, uncontrolled fantasy. He preferred not to savor the ballet in the flesh; rather he savored the phantasms of his own dancing imagination, called up by Western books and pictures. It was like being in love with someone he had never seen. — Yasunari Kawabata

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. — Alan Patrick Herbert

My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled. — Michael Dolan

Oh, before I get carried away with my news - how are you? I hope you're doing all right and not second-guessing your decision to back away from your marriage plans. Honestly, though, I've been doing some of that here, but for different reasons, of course. Well, — Beverly Lewis

She'd woken up with a receipt for condoms. That much she knew. But had she used them? Even if she had, a little voice in the back of her head yelled, "Glow-in-the-dark condoms from the Dollar Store, probably expired! — Samantha Bohrman

We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end. — Camille Paglia

It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against doubt, against darkness, against unbelief, against anger, against hatred, against jealousy, against malice, against envy. God has given this power unto all of us, and we can gain still greater power by calling upon Him for that which we lack. If it were not so, how could we be condemned for giving way to wrong influences? — George Q. Cannon

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards. — Gillian Duce

Because you're not a one-night girl, Irish." ( ... ) "You're my forever girl. — K.A. Tucker

Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority. — Bill Hicks