Bespokes Shoes Quotes & Sayings

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer. — Jeph Jacques

Her nerves tingled with a sudden alarm. The pattern didn't speak of love and commitment to her; there was something else there, something darker, something that spoke of control and submission, of loss and darkness. — Cassandra Clare

Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face. — Tavi Gevinson

My heart and soul is still music. — DJ Jazzy Jeff

My family barbecued a lot; good barbecue is more complicated than you think. — Manish Dayal

And it can be a way of healing. — Jan Karon

We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration of the self. This development - part of what distinguishes the "modern" from the "early modern" - has shaped the work of many of our most celebrated authors, whose personal experiences indelibly and visibly mark their writing. It's fair to say that the fiction and poetry of many of the finest writers of the past century or so - and I'm thinking here of Conrad, Proust, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Plath, Ellison, Lowell, Sexton, Roth, and Coetzee, to name but a few - have been deeply autobiographical. The link between the life and the work is one of the things we're curious about and look for when we pick up the latest book by a favorite author. — James Shapiro

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential. — Jacqueline Novogratz