Carrotype Quotes & Sayings

The tremendous secrecy of alleys between houses — Jack Kerouac

I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?' — Finn Wittrock

The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not. — Roz Chast

Raging winds and clashing seas
should not keep you from victory.
Stormy winds and raging seas
give birth to great destinies. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in. — Robin Williams

Scavengers who attacked dragons for their treasure, waving sharp little toothpick claw things called swords. — Tui T. Sutherland

Thought Experiment: You are a native of New York City, you live in New York, work in New York, travel about the city with no particular emotion except a mild boredom, unease, exasperation, and dislike especially for, say, Times Square and Brooklyn, and a longing for a Connecticut farmhouse. Later you become an astronaut and wander in space for years. You land on a strange, unexplored (you think) planet. There you find a road sign with an arrow, erected by a previous astronaut in the manner of GIs in World War II: 'Brooklyn 9.6 light-years.' Explain your emotion. — Walker Percy

For in order to really suffer at the hands of a woman one must have believed in her completely. — Marcel Proust

Mantovani was a great influence on me. — Brian May

Will you do me a favor?" Declan asked.
If he looked at her with those dark, intoxicating eyes, she was likely to do anything he asked.
"Maybe."
"Any more dreams you have, no matter how small, will you tell me about them?"
"Even the ones that star you?" The almost flirty quiestion slipped out before she could stop herself.
A slow grin spread across his fallen-angel face. The man just looked as if he wanted to do wicked things -- and she'd let him.
"Especially those. — Katie Reus

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. — Georges Duhamel

It's really very simple. If you tell a beautiful woman that she is beautiful, what have you given her? It's no more than a fact and it has cost you nothing. But if you tell an ugly woman she is beautiful, you offer her great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem ... What's love, darling, if it's not self-sacrifice? — Ayn Rand

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep". — Francis Bacon