Annees Folles Quotes & Sayings

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on. — Tim McGraw

It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not. — Mark Twain

We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again. — Naomi Shihab Nye

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector — Benjamin Harrison

Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens. — Kay Redfield Jamison

You might be a redneck if your anniversary present was getting the septic tank pumped. — Jeff Foxworthy

Green screen's not my favourite thing to do. — Julianne Moore

The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water and sky and forest, and after a time it occurred to her that she'd lived a life almost entirely indoors. Her memories were indoor memories, fixed by ceilings and plastered white walls. Her whole life had been locked to geometries: suburban rectangles, city squares. First the house she'd grown up in, then dorms and apartments. The open air had been nothing but a medium of transit, a place for rooms to exist. — Tim O'Brien

All dreams of the soul
End in a beautiful man's or woman's body. — William Butler Yeats

Acting in more science fiction films would be fine by me. I love doing them. — Sarah Douglas

The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability. — Abby Sunderland

Real leaders are people who help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. — David Foster Wallace