Arrandale Quotes & Sayings

The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others. — Emanuel Lasker

To halve the number of asses that you're required to kiss: double your dependency on yourself. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records — Shiv Khera

A light, this side of the hills toward Argyle, / flowed like fog through the hollows, rose to the depth / of the hills, illumined me. I faded in it / as the world faded in me, dissolved in the light. / No one to know and nothing knowable. / Oh, we know that knowing is not our way; / but, the choice is ours, would make it our way, would leave / the world for the same world made knowable. — William Bronk

I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight. — Amy Bloom

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation. — Woodrow Wilson

I gotta die with money cuz i wasn't born with it — Lil' Wayne

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong. — Theodore Roosevelt

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure. — Billy Collins

I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy. — Jim Gaffigan

God makes everything better. — Iris Long

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one. — Ayn Rand

My mother is my friend
Who shares with me her bread
All my hopelessness cured!
Her company makes me secured! — Israelmore Ayivor

If you feel small and weak, please simply come unto Christ, who makes weak things strong. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate. — James A. Garfield