Alstons Sofas Quotes & Sayings

When you become tired of fitting in, is when you truly become yourself — Ric Ocasek

The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do. — Jane Welsh Carlyle

...he wails and protests and loves me even more. And I'm humbled and honoured and touched and so fucking happy he can find this thing in me to love. — Alexis Hall

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it. — Claire Bloom

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't believe in happiness anyway ... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery. — Frank McCourt

Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being). But the church is no longer adequate as a means of affording experience of the transcendental, and of making religion real - and so art has been transformed from a means into the sole provider of religion: which means religion itself. — Gerhard Richter

The incomparable James Walvin has done it again: he has crafted a beautifully written and deeply informed single volume history of the Atlantic slave trade and its consequences on three continents. This book is full of fresh ideas and astounding detail; it is at once great storytelling, punctuated with real people and voices, and an unblinking analysis of numerous great questions and paradoxes about the power of slavery in creating the Atlantic world over four centuries. — David W. Blight