Argabright Contractors Quotes & Sayings

It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony
the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to! — Betty MacDonald

Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. — George S. Patton

No one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings. — Mary Heaton Vorse

This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread until you've made some sense of them. Short stories are a different ballgame. You read them and understand the words completely. You know what happens in each sentence. You follow the dialogue and action. at the end, you know exactly what's happened. And also you have no idea. — Laurie Frankel

A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost. — Terence McKenna

I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach. — Rosamund Pike

Every night for the rest of my life, I'll dream of the afternoon in the holloway, when I was waylaid by a dark-haired beauty who devastated me with the heat of a thousand troubled stars, and left my soul in cinders. Even when I'm an old man, and my brain has fallen to wrack and ruin, I'll remember the sweet fire of your lips under mine, and I'll say to myself, 'Now, that was a kiss.'" Silver-tongued — Lisa Kleypas

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?' — Maggie Siff

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. — Publilius Syrus

I live my life like everyday is my last. — Manny Pacquiao

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there. — Paule Marshall