Bequests Beneficiary Quotes & Sayings

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure. — C.S. Lewis

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. — Leonard Cohen

Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need. — Dan Alatorre

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. — Jorge Luis Borges

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access. — Dee Dee Myers

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities. — Andrew Sullivan

If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps; the majesty of these sciences would itself be venerable enough. — Blaise Pascal

I think you're pretty face on stage will help draw a bigger crowd. — Rachel Higginson

Hey, look - your girlfriend is saying something.
Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl? — Eoin Colfer

How could a society produce such masters and such monsters? — Meg Wiviott