Ashyankel Quotes & Sayings

Faces and faces, served out like soup-plates by scullions; coarse, greedy, casual; looking in at shopwindows with pendent parcels; ogling, brushing, destroying everything, leaving even our love impure, touched now by their dirty fingers. — Virginia Woolf

The beauty spot by her lip was one of a dozen or so scattered over her body. My new constellations. — Glen Duncan

Unique and different is the next generation of beautiful. — Taylor Swift

Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go. — Bill Crawford

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims. — Eric Hoffer

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars. — Janine Di Giovanni

If [she] had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they thought you were odd if you weren't. — Mary McCarthy

Every time you make a movie it's a new and different experience. You learn very little from the past. So, I'm a little bit better than I was when I first started. — Woody Allen