Borstell Quotes & Sayings

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hermes?" I stammered. "Hello, Percy. Didn't recognize me without my jogging clothes?" "Uh ... " I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to kneel or buy stamps from him or what. — Rick Riordan

Five,' she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady.
'Five?' Gabriel echoed blankly.
'My rating,' she said, and smiled at him. 'Your skill and technique may, perhaps, require work, but the native talent is certainly there. What you require is practice.'
'And you are willing to be my tutor?'
'I should be very insulted if you chose another,' Cecily said, and leaned up to kiss him again. — Cassandra Clare

I said no to having a beer. I once had a beer with my brother when I was twelve, and I just didn't like it. It's really that simple for me. [pp.37] — Stephen Chbosky

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. — William Graham Sumner

For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks. — Daniel Boulud

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. — Paul Ryan

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In film work, you do the best you can under the given circumstances, but you don't have control. At least, I don't. — Michael Schoeffling

The rainbow bending in the sky, Bedecked with sundry hues, Is like the seat of God on high And seems to tell thee news: That, as thereby he promised To drown the world no more, So by the blood which Christ hath shed He will our health restore. — George Gascoigne