Catherdral Quotes & Sayings

The funeral was held at St. Mary's Catherdral of San Francisco, which has the distinction of being the only church in the world designed after a washing-machine agitator. — Christopher Moore

We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them. — Rebecca Makkai

I find suggestion a hell of a lot more provocative than explicit detail. You didn't see Clark[Gable] and Vivien[leigh] rolling around in bed in Gone With The Wind, but you saw that shit eating grin on her face the next morning and you knew damned well she'd gotten properly laid. — Joan Crawford

Once a year, take her somewhere she's never been. Once a month, do something new that melts her in the sack. Once a week, stop everything and just listen to her. Once a day, catch her doing one thing you love. Once an hour, kiss her on the mouth. And every minute of every day, be grateful that you got her. — Roxanne St. Claire

One takes things for granted too much, said Emily Brent. — Agatha Christie

I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture. — Mick Jagger

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan

We are the hero of our own story. — Mary McCarthy

The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image. — Picabo Street

But women, my boy, they're the pivot everything turns upon. — Leo Tolstoy

The rock still has something to teach me. — Chris Sharma

If government wishes to see a depression ended as quickly as possible and the economy returned to normal prosperity, what course should it adopt? The first and clearest injunction is: Don't interfere with the market's adjustment process. — Murray Rothbard