Calchess Quotes & Sayings

How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead,
The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust? — Conrad Aiken

Being in a state of grace is all very well, but I imagine even Joan of Arc had qualms when they lit the first brand. — Diana Gabaldon

McDermott and two colleagues - James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University - published a paper titled 'Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too.' Their study shows that divorce can spread like a virus among friends, siblings and co-workers. — Katie Hafner

He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same time. — Katherine Rundell

Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material. — John Darnielle

My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it. — Candace Cameron Bure

And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. — Marian Wright Edelman

We say we value the legacy we leave the next generation and then saddle that generation with mountains of debt. We say we believe in equal opportunity but then stand idle while millions of American children languish in poverty. We insist that we value family, but then structure our economy and organize our lives so as to ensure that our families get less and less of our time. — Barack Obama

The usual question... GOOD or WICKED? — Danielle Paige

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture. — Samuel Fuller

Doubt is the chisel that causes the fissures to drive a solid relationship apart, — K. Bromberg