Abigail Brittany Hensel Today Quotes & Sayings

Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as to perceive more clearly that unfathomable, mysterious core that is the source of their beauty. — Richard L. McGuire

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I was standing alone with him when she burst impetuously through the door, tall and wearing a rain-cape on top of a queen's costume, a forgotten crown on her head.

She directed some rapid words at him. He began to tremble all over and dropped my hand from under his arm. Vera seized me cruelly by the arm and led me off... She led me through murky, dusty expanses, between strange machinery and constructions, through valleys and mountains and past a precarious wood to her dressing-room. And she still held me cruelly by the arm. There she slammed the door shut, rudely chasing away some handsome women with the amorous eyes of worshipers.

I do not recall her words. It was as though she were all aflame. She kissed my hands and I realized then that she had seen only me that evening, that she had performed for only me, that she loved me and that this was all such madness.

("Thirty-Three Abominations") — Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films. — Keeley Hawes

You're supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you're not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind. — Steven Soderbergh

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. — J.G. Ballard

You needn't worry about me. I know enough to do what every man ought to do in wartime when he's watched and threatened by bullies. I conceal my feelings; lie whenever necessary; pretend to admire the rascals who've ruined our city and our country; cheer dolts, bullies and knaves and damn all wise temperate men! — Kenneth Roberts

Have you ever wanted to put your head in a blender and turn on the liquefy switch? (Tate) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library. — Rob Manuel

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him. — Seneca The Younger

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork. — Tom Conti

Mankind, He has told you what is good u and what it is the Lord requires of you: v to act justly, w to love faithfulness, x and to walk humbly with your God. y — Anonymous

Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths. — Evan Esar