Belethors General Goods Quotes & Sayings

Alyosha," she murmured again, "look out the door, see if mama is eavesdropping." "Very well, Lise, I will look, only wouldn't it be better not to look? Why suspect your mother of such meanness?" "Meanness? What meanness? That she's eavesdropping on her daughter is her right, it's not meanness," Lise flared up. "And you may rest assured, Alexei Fyodorovich, that when I myself am a mother and have a daughter like me, I shall certainly eavesdrop on her." "Really, Lise? That's not good." "Oh, my God, what's mean about it? If it were an ordinary social conversation and I eavesdropped, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. — Patrick DeWitt

People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Mornings are cool like a spy,
cool like a rebel,
cool like a rhetorical street fighter,
cool like an unfilled spot where wit and joy once stood,
cool like the man who can make productive use of his demons,
cool like the deciphered eccentricities of good friends,
cool like the later protest-and-psychedelic era. — Brian D'Ambrosio

The primary reason to leave was her art; the singular reason to stay was a man. — Gina Conkle

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work. — Francis Ford Coppola

It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him. — Margaret Campbell Barnes

My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance. — Ray Davies

This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. One can detect here, elevated to an incomparably higher level, the same pathetic emotional appeal that lies concealed in every fake spiritualist photograph, every pornographic photograph; one comes to suspect that the strange, disturbing emotional appeal of the photographic art consists solely in that same repeated refrain: this is a true ghost ... this is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies, no deceptions. — Yukio Mishima