Bctst Quotes & Sayings

Forget Orson Welles, and heed Walt Whitman: "I am large, I contain multitudes."5 — Ed Yong

No one dances sober, unless he is insane. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Anything you can do, I can do better — Betty Hutton

Community empowerment, group formation, civil society strengthening, coalition building are integral components of bridging social capital and social development interventions, all of which are significant in the recovery of place. Collaboration between diverse groups will be necessary for us to recovery a thriving common life that is rooted in place. — Leonard Hjalmarson

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. — Evelyn Waugh

And I need to hear that there are situations where logic and reason don't apply, that sometimes an ugly action is a necessary one. — Erin Bowman

Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie. — Sophie Hannah

He was whispering over and over again the same phrase, "You have the body of an angel. It is impossible that such a body should have a sex. You have the body of an angel." The anger swept over Fay like a fever, an anger at his moving his penis away from her hand. She sat up, her hair wild about her shoulders, and said, "I am not an angel, Albert. I am a woman. I want you to love me as a woman. — Anais Nin

There was nothing to do but keep moving forward and make the moments count. — Suzanne Collins

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. — Dennis Miller

There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well spent. And there are writers-sometimes the same ones, sometimes not-to whom you are powerfully attracted, for reasons that may or may not have to do with literary values. They speak to you, or speak for you, sometimes with a voice that could almost be your own. Often there is one writer in particular who awakens you, who is the teacher they say you will meet when you are ready for the lesson. — James D. Houston

It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth. — John Maynard Keynes

For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time. — Margaret J. Wheatley

There is a crowd outside the main door, talking softly about the death as if they don't want the dead man to know that he is gone. — Manu Joseph