Celati Vanessa Quotes & Sayings

After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. — Robert Hass

My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. — Ted Danson

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! — William Shakespeare

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer. — Jamie Zawinski

Once you stop looking for a job, you are no longer considered part of the unemployment number. — Suze Orman

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States. — Anthony Trollope

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. — Jesse Jackson

You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college. — Kelly Braffet

Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless. — Andrew Young

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with. — Ally Walker

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. — Nadine Gordimer

Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well. — Dalai Lama XIV

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument. — Thomas Jefferson

A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame. — Solomon