Cartucho Fish Quotes & Sayings

The mind is the great poem of winter, the man,
Who, to find what will suffice,
Destroys romantic tenements
Of rose and ice ... — Wallace Stevens

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated. — Walter Savage Landor

'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams. — Dave Douglas

Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general. — Nicolas Chamfort

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. — Alvar N. C. De Vaca

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. — Anatole France

How could a person be clumsy, just standing? And yet she felt she was, as clumsy as one of those blocks of boxwood being seasoned there, unshaped, indelicate. — Margo Lanagan

Life's like a mayonnaise soda. — Lou Reed

I am malicious because I am miserable — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye — Albert Camus

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

For he, who sees a need, but waits to be asked, is already set on cruel refusal. — Dante Alighieri

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth. — Christian Kane