Amelies Porthleven Quotes & Sayings

When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies. — Cass McCombs

Don't you think one lives for times like last night?' she said to him. 'Ay! But there's the rest o'times to think on,' he replied, rather short. They — D.H. Lawrence

How defenseless we are in the face of flattery! — Milan Kundera

Oh, smell the people! yelled Dean with his face out the window, sniffing. Ah, God! Life! — Jack Kerouac

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. — Mario Monti

The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us. — Theodore Roosevelt

And she would weep. When he saw tears rolling down her face, he would forgive her.
She was less certain whether she would forgive herself. — George R R Martin

Days of yore when America was no more than a strip of land stretching a couple hundred miles west of the Atlantic and the rest was just a very compelling idea. — Charles Frazier

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does. — Shane Koyczan

So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many. — Edmund Morgan