Ash Cans And Cherry Quotes & Sayings

Gus sat there, pumping his fist, waiting for the medicine to work, the medicine that did not kill the pain so much as distance him from it — John Green

I don't bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves, shoulders and so on - and then I'll go on the running machine, cross-trainer or mountain climber. — Viswanathan Anand

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas. — Edwin Land

Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults. — Thomas Szasz

They came out into the open, and it was the grimy backwaters of Jersey City now. Tall factory stacks, and fires burning, and spreads of stagnant stinking water.
On and on the ride went. On and on and on.
They turned north soon and left the big city and all its little satellites behind them, and after a while even the rusty glow on the horizon died down and was gone. Then trees began, and little lumpy hills, and there was nothing but the darkness and the night and the fear. ("The Number's Up") — Cornell Woolrich

Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing. — Michael Parkinson

I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days. — Ed Droste

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. — Alice Foote MacDougall

I
though heart might find relief
Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief
What seems most welcome in the tomb
play a predestined part.
Homer is my example and his unchristened heart. — William Butler Yeats

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. — Brooks Atkinson