Armorial Bearings Quotes & Sayings

Carefully I opened my eyes and looked at him again. All his natural gifts were there in a blaze of light: the delicate but strong limbs, large sober brown eyes, and his mouth that for all the irony and sarcasm that could come out of it was childlike and ready to be kissed. — Anne Rice

I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind,
I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,
But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;
I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad. — William Butler Yeats

It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down. — Harry Nilsson

Sometimes one needs a little bit of faith when faced with a difficult situation. Rational answers don't always work. We also need a miracle. — Amish Tripathi

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real. — Alice Walker

I belong to the opposition party, which is called life. — Honore De Balzac

I'm private in the sense that I like my personal space and only want people in the parts of my business that I choose to share. Anything I feel is too personal to share publicly, I keep to myself. — Laila Ali

Don't stop at the first obstacle; have endurance to keep on going and you will succeed. — Robert A. Schuller

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead. — Nikola Tesla

I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard. — Malala Yousafzai

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. — Ambrose Bierce

It had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table. In warming himself at French social theories he had brought away no smell of scorching. We may handle even extreme opinions with impunity while our furniture, our dinner-giving, and preference for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order. — George Eliot

I like to photograph democratically. — William Eggleston

Experience is a flow from event to consequence, with moral events defined by human choice. — James Carroll