Alverify Quotes & Sayings

When you learn to love hell you will be in heaven. — Thaddeus Golas

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. — Lincoln Steffens

The main hallway of the Sternwood place was two stories high. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of Indian elephants, there was a broad stained-glass panel showing a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn't have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair. The knight had pushed the vizor of his helmet back to be sociable, and he was fiddling with the knots on the ropes that tied the lady to the tree and not getting anywhere. I stood there and thought that if I lived in the house, I would sooner or later have to climb up there and help him. He didn't seem to be really trying. — Raymond Chandler

The times that were the most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly, totally gone she was. — John Green

Stripes on their backs. The twentieth century — Rick Bragg

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. — James Ellroy

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true. — Bill Hicks

Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage. — Ben Affleck

I can't defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better. — Debasish Mridha

That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors. — Kate Morton