Cleft Awareness Quotes & Sayings

We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We'll do the best we know.
We'll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow.
And make our garden grow! — Leonard Bernstein

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence. — Nik Halik

I craved something so deep, so passionate that it hurt to even think about it. Looking up at that first star, just now sparkling, happy in its dance through my atmosphere, I made my wish, my prayer, my making myself available. — Everett Peacock

(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live in isolation while those who condemn him seek the basest goals of any people on the face of the earth. Perhaps it would be possible for the Negro to become reconciled to his plight if he could be made to believe that his sufferings were for some remote, high, sacrificial end; but sharing the culture that condemns him, and seeing that a lust for trash is what blinds the nation to his claims, is what sets storms to rolling in his soul.) — Richard Wright

The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate. — Ben Crenshaw

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much. — James H. Cone

I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation. — Tony Kushner

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions. — Rosamund Pike

Divorces are made in heaven. — Oscar Wilde

I said to my wife, 'Where do you want to go for our anniversary?' She said, 'I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen.' — Henny Youngman