Cabbie Howard Quotes & Sayings

Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to span
When it gathers to egg once more — J. Aleksandr Wootton

Humans, even nomadic ones, need a sense of home. Home need not be one place or any place at all, but every home has two essential elements: a sense of community and, even more important, a history. — Eric Weiner

Suddenly everything finally made sense because, paradoxically, I finally accepted that it never would make sense. That's life. It's not all wrapped up with a tidy bow - it's crazy and disorganized and unpredictable, and so are the people who live it. — Diane Schwemm

Basle, Zurich, Baden, Paris - the flickering of steel rails over the arterial systems of Europe's body: steel ganglia meeting and dividing away across mountains and valleys. — Lawrence Durrell

I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

She was much too thin. She was serene, like someone accustomed to sickness, someone who layed back to back with it in bed. — Helen Oyeyemi

It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care. — Aimee Mann

But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant — William Wordsworth

Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers. — Homer

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity. — Emile Zola

What kind of a promise ?
One that only a fool asks of a madman — Elizabeth Chadwick