Alaihis Quotes & Sayings

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you? — William Hartnell

Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend. — Gerda Weissmann Klein

I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can — Kenneth Clarke

Writing, regardless of the end result - whether good or bad, published or not, well reviewed or slammed - means celebrating beauty in an often ugly world. — Mary Karr

It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and as if the only appearances of which we can be aware are cracks and planes of fracture in that transparent matrix. Dreams and percepts and stories are perhaps cracks and irregularities in the uniform and timeless matrix. Was this what Plotinus meant by an 'invisible and unchanging beauty which pervades all things'? — Gregory Bateson

For the first time, I see her. Fucking Sophia. I don't see her as a means to an end - a potential way to take down the bastard who killed my uncle. I see her. I see her as a woman, and she is beautiful. — Callie Hart

You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in. — Danny Elfman