Bendomolenas Quotes & Sayings

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university. — Henry David Thoreau

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way. — Haruki Murakami

I just try to concentrate on concentrating. — Martina Navratilova

I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know. — Wendell Berry

We must rest, he told himself, on our confidence in His design. Design was clear enough in the stars, the seasons, in the woods and fields. But in human affairs - ? Perhaps our bewilderment came from a fault in our perceptions; we could never see what was behind the next turn of the road. — Willa Cather

By sad experience I know what sorrows She must endure, who marries into a family unwilling to receive her. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

You've lost your muchness. — Lewis Carroll

Secrets have a cost, they are not for free. — The Amazing Spiderman

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. — Rabindranath Tagore

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. — W.C. Fields

If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser. — Sloane Crosley

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back. — Dennis Garvin

With six small diamonds for his eyes
He walks upon the summer skies,
Drawing from his silken blouse
The lacework of his dwelling house. — Robert P. T. Coffin

Inconvienience pushes one into heroic action... — K. Farrell St. Germain