Bridge At Remagen Quotes & Sayings

How, in so short a time, she had passed from intoxication to disgust we will only seek to explain by supposing that this mysterious composition which we call society, is nothing absolutely good or bad in itself, but has a spirit in it, volatile but potent, which either makes you drunk when you think it, as Orlando thought it, delightful, or gives you a headache when you think it, as Orlando thought it, repulsive. That the faculty of speech has much to do with it either way, we take leave to doubt. Often a dumb hour is the most ravishing of all; brilliant wit can be tedious beyond description. But to the poets we leave it, and so on with our story. — Virginia Woolf

He gives me all his numbers and writes mine down on a tram ticket. I am listening hard, but he doesn't say I'll call you. — Toni Jordan

Dream big with no limitations. — Robert Cheeke

I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life. — Andre Rieu

Bump in my hoopty hoopty hoop. I own that. And I aint payin my rent this month. I owe that. — Nicki Minaj

and the stars were icicles of mockery — Jack Kerouac

When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit. — Meister Eckhart

After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed. — Mark Twain

People are different, writers are different, and the motivations can come from anywhere. — Brian Lageose

Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves. — Simon Sinek

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves. — Michel De Montaigne

Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months passed before I was able to go overseas, just because my skill set was not one that was important in those really early days after the attacks. — John Kiriakou