Cheminator Quotes & Sayings

The most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous ... the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today ... I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

I've loved learning about the position," I said. "It sounds incredibly exciting, and I know I could take the magazine exactly where you want to go. — Kate White

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding. — Cheryl Strayed

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought. — Lillian Hellman

Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose? — Cornelia Funke

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks. — Fareed Zakaria

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message 'He is Dead'.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good. — W. H. Auden

I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else. — Jeffrey Eugenides

It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel. — Edward Kennedy

Everything sinful is glamorous these days, isn't it? — Aimee Agresti

Do you understand how rare it is to get a real chance to save someone? — Garth Risk Hallberg

God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us. — Joyce Meyer

Rules give anarchy something to aim at. Points — Jodi Taylor

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. — David Allee

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous. — Paloma Faith