Ciee Canvas Quotes & Sayings

And if the Colonel thought that calling me his friend would make me stand by him, well, he was right. — John Green

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness. — Leonardo Da Vinci

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's. — Alexander Woollcott

Until you got ice cream spilled on you, you're not doing field work — Randy Pausch

All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact because in my line of work I read a lot of bad books - books so bad they aren't even published, which is quite a feat, when you consider what is published.
And what they all have in common, these bad books, be they novels or memoirs, is this: they don't ring true. I'm not saying that a good book is true necessarily, just that it feels true for the time you're reading it. — Robert Harris

Stolen sweets are best. — Colley Cibber

Not that anyone short of God Almighty could have gotten Marcus Senior to rest and take it easy. It was like trying to make a shark sit up and beg for treats. — Deborah Blake

Count Sylvius, "We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself."
"Not far from him, at any rate," Holmes answered witha polite smile. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Eleanor knew that she was fat, but she didn't feel that fat. She could feel her bones and muscles just underneath all the chub, and they were big, too. Park's mom could wear Eleanor's rib cage like a roomy vest. — Rainbow Rowell

I may have faced him in battle before on some colony moon somewhere. He may have killed some of my friends, and I may have killed some of his. I am once again struck by how much alike we are - how similar the grunts on both sides really are - and I know that when this battle is over, I don't want to go on fighting him and his friends over dumb shit that could be settled at a table in one evening by half a dozen grunts from each side and a few bottles of booze between them. — Marko Kloos

My soft voice and demeanor were useless. In a pint jar, I carried a cremated friend, like flesh scraped from a cistern. — Henri Cole

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. — Samuel Johnson

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn