Binstock Napa Quotes & Sayings

It's been a long time since I asked anything of heaven, and my arms still haven't come down. — Antonio Porchia

Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response ... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than Writers. The letters I personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. I always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that I couldn't have written them myself. — Malcolm Forbes

In all honesty, it's just time for me to move on with my life. Lord knows he moved on with his, Rala replied — A. Petrov

In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes. — D.H. Lawrence

I'm glad I married you too, Harper," I whispered into her hair, "because I'm in love with you." But she didn't hear, gone into a dream. — Fisher Amelie

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. — James Agate

Being a man is a privilege, not an entitlement. It is a surrender of our priority. It is a laying down of our lives, not physically but inwardly - our preferences, our pleasures, sometimes even our dreams. Our version of Witold Pilecki's medals comes in the lives we offer to God, lives we have bled and sweated and prayed and given ourselves for. This is what it means to be a man. — Stephen Mansfield

What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children! — William Morris Hunt

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. — John Ruskin

The thought struck Dennis that a hundred years before he was even born Tinuva undoubtedly knew of the river. Again he realized just how ancient the elven race was and with it came the recognition of just how much they risked when facing battle: it wasn't just a score of years in the balance, it was a score of decades. — Raymond E. Feist

Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week. — Sammy Cahn

The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn't rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk. — Kevin Drum