Bel Ikanin Baskenti Quotes & Sayings

Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings — Isobelle Carmody

can't i just be a paper girl with a paper life? — Amanda Lovelace

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company. — John F. Kennedy

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair. — Sharon Creech

Whoever invented smooth jazz, man, I wanna kill 'em: You're turning an art form into a hooker. — Phil Woods

*Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the same things? Think carefully before you insult this book. — Pseudonymous Bosch

A Christian jerk is still a jerk. — Kevin Roose

There's a beauty in birds on the wing,
That stirs the heart and makes earthbound creatures
Long for flight, but the larks above the battlefield
Are silenced by the sounds of war.
I have watched birds out at sea,
Catching the wind,
And longed to follow them,
To some safe place far from here. — Charles Todd

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. — Iris Murdoch

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. — Oscar Wilde

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious. — Christy Leigh Stewart

IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING. — Daniel Webster