Beley 22 Quotes & Sayings

The young need their sleep and their dreams; only we who are old dream best when we are awake. — Erik Christian Haugaard

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well? — Stephen King

Moreover, even at elite colleges, the personnel attracted to college admissions are seldom themselves part of the intellectual elite. Yet their job is to select students unlike themselves, to be taught by professors unlike themselves, for careers unlike theirs. It can hardly be surprising that admissions personnel are drawn toward non-intellectual criteria and toward ideas not unlike the notion of judging "the whole person," as found among educators at the pre-college level. Over the years, all sorts of criteria from popular psychology and sociological speculation have assumed increasing weight visa-vis such standard intellectual criteria as academic records and test scores. The — Thomas Sowell

I heard Molly say, 'Our Mouse is a hundred miles away.' But I wasn't as far away as that; I was in a dimly lit street somewhere in Hampstead. — Dodie Smith

My small friend, do you really understand? Or are you just looking for pity? Do you want me to say "It's not your fault, it was determined by fate"? Or do you want me to say, "You have done enough, rest, for now"?
My small friend. When the day comes, that you truly understand the meaning of the word "Path", is the day we shall talk about "Inactivity". — Da Xia

Having words and explanations for things is too modern — E.L. Konigsburg

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious. — Siri Hustvedt

... They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much more painful. — Richard Matheson

You can't always be 100-percent positive that a joke will work, so you've just got to try it. Fortunately, if one new joke doesn't work, I've got lots of old ones that do. Just like cops, it's important to have backup. — Doug Benson

Fortinbras Bartleby, ten years old when he had died (of consumption, he had told Bod, who had mistakenly believed for several years that Fortinbras had been eaten by lions or bears, and was extremely disappointed to learn it was merely a disease), now apologized to Bod. — Neil Gaiman

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively. — Pierre Dukan

Kings can only use their best tools. — T.H. White

Churches and trains
they all look the same to me now
they shoot you some place
while we ache to come home somehow. — Gregory Alan Isakov

Marry yourself first
promise never to leave you! — SARK

everybody loves a poet
a poet loves everybody — Aram Saroyan