Beltway Park Quotes & Sayings

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most. — Teju Cole

She thought he was about to kiss her again. Instead, he slowly sank to his knees, grasped her waist, and pressed his lips to her belly. Her stretch marks. He was kissing her stretch marks. — Pamela Clare

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection. — Maurice Greene

Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development. — Rudolf Rocker

But it's so silly, Mama!' pipes Zach, protesting with all the might of his twelve-year-old bellows and leaping to his feet, chest puffed, to fling a proprietary arm around his sister who fits so neatly in the crook of him, as if wrought for this place. He speaks for them both, though Rachel is some months his elder. — Emma Richler

O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss. — Robert Bridges

I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them. — Mandy Patinkin

[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me. — Stephanie Kwolek

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. — Charles Spurgeon

You're right. You're not a princess
you're Little Red. and I'm the Big Bad Wolf. — Julie Johnson

Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction. — June Goodfield

The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion. — Muriel Spark