Altmeyers Bedbathhome Quotes & Sayings

If you walk on stilts, you're still walking on your feet. If you sit on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your ass. — Michel De Montaigne

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years! — Tennessee Williams

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up. — Rachel Joyce

To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth. — Vladimir Nabokov

All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do ... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock. — Alice Cooper

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love. — Phyllis Bottome

We all know you're beautiful, Scott. — Becca Fitzpatrick

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future. — Polixeni Papapetrou

When we hide out of insecurity we block people out. No one trusts a person that is hiding something, but we are afraid to reveal all that is within us because that means we need to be vulnerable, and the truth will be there for all to see. No more hiding behind a wall, the good, bad, and ugly will be laid out on the table for others to either accept or reject. — Heather Bixler

Cash misses his wife with a blank pain in his chest, and he misses his sisters and cousins, who have known him since he was a strong, good-looking boy. Everyone back there remembers, or if they are too young, they've been told. The old ones get to hang on the sweet, perfect past. Cash was the best at climbing trees; his sister Letty won the story bees. The woman who married Letty's husband's brother, a beauty named Sugar, was spotted one time drinking a root beer and had her picture in LIFE magazine. They all know. Now she has thin hair and a humped back but she's still Sugar, she gets to walk around Heaven, Oklahoma, with everybody thinking she's pretty and special. which she is. That's the trouble with moving away from family, he realizes. You lose your youth entirely, you have only the small tired baggage that is carried within the body. — Barbara Kingsolver

Was it always this way? Did everyone from high school end up looking like weird facsimiles of other people's parents? — Mira Jacob

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. — Herbert Turnbull

A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it — Jack Welch

I know what it is to look at your past, and see nothing more than your mistakes — A.C. Gaughen

But then two lost souls searching for an escape should connect, I reason. — Lisa Renee Jones