A02s Quotes & Sayings

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout. — Ben Shahn

Aim High and Hit the Mark — Rosalinda Rosales Morgan

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress. — Gale Anne Hurd

The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun. — Oscar Wilde

It is fast approaching the point where I don't want tAdenauer to want the job. — Erma Bombeck

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it — Henry David Thoreau

It's unseemly to criticize without knowledge. — James Clavell

It was the first morning of the first day of the new century. Snow blanketed the ground. Anything was possible. — Jacqueline Kelly

They can't push women all the way back, but they can use women's bodies to keep them under surveillance and control. — Katha Pollitt

As the size of cyclotrons increases and faster particles are produced, a difficulty arises due to the relativistic increase of mass of the particle. — Ernest Walton

But his son hated him. He hated him for coming up to them, for stopping and looking down on them; he hated him for interrupting them; he hated him for the exaltation and sublimity of his gestures; for the magnificence of his head; for his exactingness and egotism (for there he stood, commanding then to attend to him); but most of all he hated the twang and twitter of his father's emotion which, vibrating round them, disturbed the perfect simplicity and good sense of his relations with his mother. By looking fixedly at the page, he hoped to make him move on; by pointing his finger at a word, he hoped to recall his mother's attention, which, he knew angrily, wavered instantly his father stopped. But, no. Nothing would make Mr. Ramsay move on. There he stood, demanding sympathy. — Virginia Woolf

Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing.
"I will not," said his father. "I could not." For he is Peter Augustus Duchene, and he will always return to me.
Again and again, Peter's father threw him up in the air. Again and again, Peter felt himself suspended in nothingness for a moment, just a moment, and then he was pulled back, returned to the sweetness of the earth and the warmth of his father's waiting arms.
"See?" said his father to his mother. "Do you see how he always comes back to me? — Kate DiCamillo

Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Poe's drunkenness was a mnemonic device, a deliberate method of work, drastic and fatal, no doubt, but suited to his passionate nature. Poe taught himself to drink, just as a careful man of letters makes a deliberate practice of filling his notebooks with notes. — Charles Baudelaire