Aladon Auction Quotes & Sayings

I had just moved to New York in September 2001, and immediately 9/11 happened, and of course it completely changed the city and everybody who lived there. — Cassandra Clare

The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs? — Guy Endore

Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success. — Robert Ringer

Our faith in doctrine is not established until we have a perfect conviction that God is its author. — John Calvin

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion. — Jose Andres

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way. — Rupert Graves

Creativity takes courage. — Henri Matisse

I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen. — Robert Englund

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature. — Georgia Harkness

If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would. — Miranda July

Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements. — Barry Boehm

Not content with the liberal creed of equality of rights, of equality before the law, the socialist State would trample on such equality on behalf of the monstrous and impossible goal of equality or uniformity of results--or rather, would erect a new privileged elite, a new class, in the name of bringing about such an impossible equality. Socialism was a confused and hybrid movement because it tried to achieve the lbieral goals of freedom, peace and industrial harmony and growth--goals which can only be achieved through liberty and the seperation of government from virtuallty--by imposting the old conservative means of statism, collectivism, and hierarchical privilege. — Murray N. Rothbard

She pauses, hand on her hip. "Yes, — Christina Baker Kline

We'll find him, sir." "No you won't," Childermass said. "Because Peter has done it again." He then flew into a tantrum that lasted more than five minutes. He repeatedly kicked the side of a car. He snatched the machine gun from his bodyguard and shot out two searchlights. Grown men got in each other's ways trying to make themselves scarce. Childermass dropped the machine gun and hit himself in the face with his fist until they were able to subdue him and sit him down and pour whiskey into him. — Chet Williamson

Now, however open a person manages to be, there is one possibility to which he remains as closed as ever: the possibility that when he uncovers his deepest anxieties he will find hidden inside them certain horrifying truths which his whole effort to control his life has been designed to keep repressed. — Jerome A. Miller