Bassdash Quotes & Sayings

I have an immensely understanding partner who does something creative herself, and we both need a lot of time alone. I structure my life around getting my work done, first and foremost. Everything else is secondary. That's the only way I've been able to do it. — Tom Bissell

He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart. — Lisa Kleypas

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off. — Ned Vizzini

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see. — Zosia Mamet

We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be. — Bob Rae

Above all, what is our culture, and what has remained of it? Is European culture perhaps nothing more than the technology and trade civilization that has marched triumphantly across the planet? Or is it instead a post-European culture born on the ruins of the ancient European cultures?
There is a paradoxical synchrony in these developments. The victory of the post-European techno-secular world and the universalization of its lifestyle and thinking have spread the impression (especially in Asia and Africa) that Europe's value system, culture, and faith (in other words, the very foundations of its identity) have reached the end of the road and have indeed already disappeared. — Pope Benedict XVI

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again. — Will Carleton

I am so far from being a pessimist ... on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. — Eugene O'Neill

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. — Richard Bach

A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words used in new ways, is a sure sign of a profound change in people's articulation of the world. — Allan Bloom