Charnels Quotes & Sayings

I don't care what you think, your junk does not have special abilities. — Jeaniene Frost

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us. — Pamela Stephenson

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight. — Walter Savage Landor

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud. — Little Richard

And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder. — Edward Hirsch

I have made my bed
In charnels and on coffins, where black death
Keeps record of the trophies won — Percy Bysshe Shelley

There are so few people left alive from back then, you may as well be talking to them about the Black Death. Nobody recalls the shite in the 30s and that were fucking horrible. For Christ's sake, nobody wants to remember the shite in the 80s. It's all forgotten and swept under the rug by the newspapers and the BBC. They get nostalgic about the music, but they never want to mention the misery. It's all shite. As for the bloody Second World War, the politicians only talk about it when they need an excuse to go pissing about in one of those fucking Muslim countries. — Harry Leslie Smith

Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you. — Clare Of Assisi

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. — Thomas Hobbes

Our best chance for happiness is education. — Mark Van Doren

Love.' What a wilderness of pain, of yearning, of loss could be contained in that word. Patient and kind nonsense, is how Lady Fennimore had put it. Love wasn't for cowards; he wondered if it was for the wise. He supposed love itself made you stupid at first, or no one, no one would ever fall in love at all. — Julie Anne Long

God is good, all the time, every time. These guys on this team are unbelievable, man. The fight - the fight, we're in this fight over and over again. People used to doubt, man. We're just excited to be on this team. — Jerry Brewer

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine. — Azar Nafisi

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics. — Simon Travaglia