Breviary Online Quotes & Sayings

To YoYo Ma: You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe a human alone can do this. — Steve Jobs

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time. — Michael Stuhlbarg

With a proven track record as a reliable, low cost producer able to meet the needs of our customers with a diversity of operations, coal qualities and transportation options, we believe we can continue our record-setting performance in the future, as the Gibson South and White Oak mines reached their full potential. — Joe Craft

Whatever view one takes of the outcome being affected by morale, it seems certain that the realm of illusion must be escaped before anything else. — Christopher Hitchens

Service without reward is punishment. — George Herbert

Just keep playing, mastering as you do the step Into disorder this one meant. Don't you see It's all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires Arise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial has been set And that's ominous, but all your graciousness in living Conspires with it, now that this is our home: A place to be from, and have people ask about. — John Ashbery

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far ... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. — Bill Gates

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it. — Anonymous

That was Ross's cue. During the investigation, he was responsible for setting up and monitoring the electromagnetic equipment, the digital video cameras, the infrared — Jodi Picoult

Something I've never admitted: I was the one who told Carlito about Isabela's cheating when he was beer-drunk in front of the TV one Saturday afternoon, wondering why she took so long to return his calls.

I pumped him full of rage, told him she was giving him horns, that he was letting her play him like some kind of cabron.

I lied.

Said everybody in town knew about her easy ways but him. — Patricia Engel