Blackstairs Quotes & Sayings

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery. — Noam Chomsky

They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper's Bluff, they recited their favorite poems. "In the early days," Fanny recalled, "we all delighted in Longfellow and Mrs. Browning and Owen Meredith." Later, they turned to Swinburne, Kipling, Shelley, and Shakespeare. The Roosevelts — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me. — Adrian Tomine

I love you, Julian Blackthorn. I love you more than starlight. — Cassandra Clare

On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilitie s and joys of fatherhood. Whether our fathers are near at hand or a continent away, with their families or watching from the light of eternity, we take this day to remember them, to say our thanks for the years they have given us, and to ask that they receive God's blessings. — Ronald Reagan

That impulse, too, may have been the impulse which leads a child to pick up one pebble on a path strewn with them, promising it a life of warmth and security upon the nursery mantelpiece, delighting in the sense of power and benignity which such an action confers, and believing that the heart of the stone leaps with joy when it sees itself chosen from a million like it, to enjoy this bliss instead of a life of cold and wet upon the high road. "It might so easily have been any other of the millions of stones, but it was I, I, I! — Virginia Woolf

However, embarrassment was quickly replaced with a completely different emotion all together when I heard him say the words that I knew I was never going to forget, "I'm going to marry that girl one day."
And in that moment ... I knew that I was falling in love. — Karli Perrin

I did not want to voice a word that would lift the cover and reveal that hideous emotion I always felt for her, the underside of love. — Philip Roth

Life goes on with fragile normalcy. — Sara Gruen

I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession. — Rooney Mara

For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the table, to have my work out there. Now I must write a book every two years, and that's never enough time, either. — Jan Karon

He hadn't wanted to leave Emma, but at the same time he'd thought it would help. Like an addict getting away from the source of his addiction. — Cassandra Clare

He listened to the workers' comments on events. He wondered how they could know so much, but above all he marvelled at how much misery grown men could cause. — Anonymous

I don't like people
much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former. — Philip Wylie

President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. — Kevin Costner

Good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ... — John Geddes