Abends Wenn Quotes & Sayings

Poets and monks ... We're both sort of peripheral to the world. — Kathleen Norris

And it be well for a knowlessman that he should not be here, for he would be taken from this place and his gaskin slit, his moules shown to the four winds, his welchet torn asunder with many hooks and his figgin placed upon a spike (...) — Terry Pratchett

Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered. — Ryan Holmes

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea. — Herman Melville

Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives. — Baldassare Castiglione

He's been like a fresh of breath air. — Roy Keane

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life. — Bobby Moynihan

Trouble is, finding a girl is still a tricky situation, like choosing a hat." He flips off his hat and sweeps a finger along the edge of the brim. "Like, maybe you've had your eye on a fine-looking French number, but when it finally falls onto your head, it loses its appeal... Or maybe you've been told all your life that bison felts are the only hats worth wearing. And when something different comes along, say alligator suede, even though it's the most worthy thing you've seen in your life, you might leave it in the window"--he taps his chin--"until you realize no other hat will fit just right. — Stacey Lee

Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up. — Mariella Frostrup

I thought about a line from Raymond Chandler in The Long Goodbye that I always remembered - and it somehow seemed to fit both of us. "There is no trap so deadly as the one you set for yourself. — R. G. Belsky

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. — Cesare Pavese

Twisted minds are as natural to some people as twisted bodies. — Oscar Wilde

What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too! — Denis Kearney