Cleonie White Quotes & Sayings

Does a banquet really need an asparagus server?" "Does an orchestra need a bassoon? — Amor Towles

Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word. — Mina Loy

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people would react to my death. Mr Dunthorne's quavering voice as he makes the announcement. The shocked faces of my classmates. A playground bedecked with flowers. The empty stillness of a school corridor. Local news analysis ... The steady stoicism of my parents ... Candlelit vigils ... And finally, my glorious resurrection. — Joe Dunthorne

I played along, spent the next two hours searching for Mormon men who are attractive, employed, educated, no more than two inches shorter than I, no more than ten years older, who lack over commitment phobia, porn addiction, obvious misogynistic or homosexual tendencies, and the immediate need for a new mommy for their four-plus children. — Nicole Hardy

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself. — Chester Brown

Better check your pants, Kyle. I think you had a nerdgasm. — John Corwin

When a person's debt increases a lot, at first he will feel he wants to pay it all back, later he will think, 'Why give back?' That spoils from within. We should not sign from within. — Dada Bhagwan

The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they're not right because they haven't got that type of refinement. — Douglas Kirkland