Bloomstein Larry Quotes & Sayings

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine. — Otto Ohlendorf

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map. — Ken Jennings

If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates. — Bo Jackson

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others. — Bertolt Brecht

The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don't ignore those little groaning aches and pains. — Valerie Cruz

Don't become a puppet to other peoples desires, live and create your life as you intend it to be. — Steven Redhead

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling. — Jeb Bush

He lost himself. Blasted outside his body with his come, floated through into Finn, saw himself from the outside, from Finn's eyes, drenched with sweat, eyes squeezed shut, muscular body heaving, the cords on his neck popping out. He was beautiful. Inside Finn, he was beautiful. The revelation leveled him, sent himself back inside his lightning-struck body, and he collapsed, shuddering, into Finn's arms. — Anonymous

Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. — Francine Prose

Damn braces...bless relaxes. — William Blake

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.
[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the tallest little man in the world; Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33:2 (April 1976), p. 171] — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Then, there on the screen I saw Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. An American Tragedy, a film I'd seen at least twice, not that it was all that great, but still it was very good, especially the final scene, which was unreeling at this particular moment: Clift and Taylor standing together, separated by the bars of a prison cell, a death cell, for Clift is only hours away from execution. Clift, already a poetic ghost inside his grey death-clothes, and Taylor, nineteen and ravishing, sublimely fresh as lilac after rain. — Truman Capote

Knowledge is the foundation for understanding; understanding the catalyst for peace. — Nikki DiCaro