Catched Frames Quotes & Sayings

In a bitter night, a mustard night that was last night, a good thought came and the dark was sweetened when the day sat down. And this thought went from evening star to the late dipper on the edge of the first light
that our betters spoke of. — John Steinbeck

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters. — Samuel Johnson

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. — Jimmy Breslin

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena - organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. — Anthony Marra

Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things 'your best shot' then the other much-used phrases like 'land of opportunity' would kick in as well. — Christopher Hitchens

'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning. — J. Lee Thompson

So few American novels have happy endings. Perhaps this is not surprising in a nation whose declaration of independence provides its citizens not with the right to happiness, but the right to its pursuit. — Azar Nafisi

India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems, — Jawaharlal Nehru

You, Sam. I love you. Only you. When I'm not with you, I survive. When I'm with you, I live. — Tijan

Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes. — Michael Ondaatje

There are who keep themselves in peace and keep peace also with others, and there are who neither have peace nor suffer others to have peace; they are troublesome to others, but always more troublesome to themselves. And there are who hold themselves in peace, and study to bring others unto peace; nevertheless, all our peace in this sad life lieth in humble suffering rather than in not feeling adversities. He who best knoweth how to suffer shall possess the most peace; that man is conqueror of himself and lord of the world, the friend of Christ, and the inheritor of heaven. — Thomas A Kempis

I think we're here to make the world a better place than we found it. I think we don't always deserve the cards that we're dealt, good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we're dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good - we just have to work a little more is all. There's no destiny. There's just muddling through without doing too much damage. — Carrie Vaughn

If you have political convictions ... keep 'em to yourself — Johnny Cash

For a thousand years Europe had been trying to drive Mohammedanism out of the continent. — Mary Platt Parmele

That wasn't a true dream, but an ancient organic memory millions of years old. The innate releasing mechanisms laid down in your cytoplasm have been awakened. The expanding sun and rising temperatures are driving you back down to the spinal levels into the drowned seas of the lowest layers of your unconscious, into the entirely new zone of the neuronic psyche. This is the lumbar transfer, total psychic recall. We really remember these swamps and lagoons. — J.G. Ballard