Canalcraft Quotes & Sayings

I came into advertising in 1961. I had been turned down for jobs on the Ford account in the late Fifties as 'not their type.' If it hadn't been for Bill Bernbach, I would now be sitting in some luncheonette, continuing my life as a messenger. — Jerry Della Femina

Silence is the herald of joy — William Shakespeare

Cupid, you worthless bastard, I summon you to human form! (Julian)
Gee, I can't imagine why he wouldn't respond to that. (Grace) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When I came to America from Sweden, Mother and I, we went to Chicago where our relatives lived. — Ann-Margret

There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere. — Eric Schmidt

We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport. — Alberto Salazar

War is a contagion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

He made me feel. — Priya Kanaparti

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. — Norman Mailer

Not long ago, I reread Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian. I was amazed to discover what she had written in her note about the difficult composition of the book
which had taken her many decades:
Another thing virtually impossible, to take a feminine character as a central figure ... Women's lives are much too limited or else too secret. If a woman does recount her own life she is promptly reproached for no longer being truly feminine.
We all struggle with this
still. The woman who chooses to write disguised as a male character is hoping to avoid the problem. But you cannot avoid the problem of being a woman. — Erica Jong

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first — Henrik Larsson

Teach a child good manners during babyhood. — Nachman Of Breslov

How well I know what I mean to do
When the long dark Autumn evenings come,
And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue?
With the music of all thy voices, dumb
In life's November too!
I shall be found by the fire, suppose,
O'er a great wise book as beseemeth age,
While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows,
And I turn the page, and I turn the page,
Not verse now, only prose! — Robert Browning

God can make you whole again. Past experiences may not disappear, but they don't have the same effect on you. — Thea Harris

You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it - to see the Queerness that moves in every bit of Fairyland, how it threads through every heart and field, how we are all bound together up in the Weird Well of the World. — Catherynne M Valente