Chunks In Period Quotes & Sayings

For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It's what's cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it's stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can't purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won't believe it ever happened. — Elizabeth McCracken

We are what we repeatedly do. — Aristotle.

We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel. — Charles M. Schulz

Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result. — Jeanette Winterson

I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music. — Gian Carlo Menotti

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths. — Natalie Babbitt

Brooke Watson was the most beautiful girl in school, and she was my age, and she lived two houses down from me, and I could pick out her scent in a massive crowd. — Dan Wells

Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said has not yet been sufficiently said. — Eugene Delacroix

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell. — Donna Summer

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. — Chuck Jones

Why should my love be powerless to help another? — George MacDonald