Blackistone Post Quotes & Sayings

The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same. It's so bright it makes the room waver at the edges. Every few years we disappear. — Jenny Downham

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. — Janet Frame

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He had come into the autumn of his life: a man had his seasons, even as had the earth. Was the harvesting of autumn less important than the seeding of spring? Each without the other was meaningless. — Irving Stone

I couldn't wait to see then again, beautiful things. Extraordinary. — Daniel Handler

All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is; — Lao-Tzu

You don't know how to fight. You just leave it up to me. — Norah Olson

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking. — Roland Barthes

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes. — William Poundstone

Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music. — Ezra Koenig

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them. — Charles H. Townes

If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you. — Shya Kane

Even ivory towers need central heating. — Breyten Breytenbach

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. — Ross Perot