Balranald Club Quotes & Sayings

Washington is awash in post-war testosterone. — Patricia Schroeder

I wish I could purr, too. I would have purred then. — Neil Gaiman

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed. — Walter Benjamin

He sat down and played again that piece of Scriabin's that Lydia thought he played so badly, and as he began he had a sudden recollection of that stuffy, smoky cellar to which she had taken him, of those roughs he had made such friends with, and of the Russian woman, gaunt and gipsy-skinned, with her enormous eyes, who had sung those wild, barbaric songs with such a tragic abandon. Through the notes he struck he seemed to hear her raucous, harsh and yet deeply moving voice. Leslie Mason had a sensitive ear. — W. Somerset Maugham

I'd heard about people falling in love, and I'd heard about lust. What I had never heard about was this all-consuming need to be inside another human being. I felt this desperate compulsion to become one with him. This was desire. This was to crave. This was what if felt like to want. — Ella Frank

A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience. — Eddie Cantor

We are your friends. It is the law of friendship that you tell us things you don't want to tell us. — J. Lynn

Holy shit," he said. "Oh, my God, holy shit." "Vince," I said, irritated because he had interrupted the first happy thoughts I'd had in days. "In traditional Western culture, we like to separate deity and feces." He — Jeff Lindsay

Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation. — Andie MacDowell

Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you! — Cassandra Clare