Batenhorst Volleyball Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible. — Josh Pais

In the Torah, the Hebrew 'to know', often used in a sexual context, is not about facts but about connections. Knowledge, not as accumulation but as charge and discharge. — Jeanette Winterson

What could she tell him? I notice everything about him, from his flawed nose to his battle scars to his eyes as blue as an upland lake at midsummer. Sometimes I see the boy he would have been had it not been for his life at Ragmarket. He wears his pain on his face in unguarded moments; at other times, I can see just how dangerous he is. No, she couldn't say any of that. — Cinda Williams Chima

I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women. — Peter Coyote

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues. — V.S. Pritchett

We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information. — Robert Lanza

It is 3:38 a.m., and the time of night when my mind starts running around all wild and out of control, like my cat, George, when he was a kitten. — Jennifer Niven

Friendship is ... the sort of love one can
imagine between angels ... — C.S. Lewis

Father Stalin, look at this Collective farming is just bliss The hut's in ruins, the barn's all sagged All the horses broken nags And on the hut a hammer and sickle And in the hut death and famine No cows left, no pigs at all Just your picture on the wall — Timothy Snyder

When you feel yourself unhappy, look at a smiling child, you will feel happy again! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. — Evelyn Waugh