Clubs In Fabric Quotes & Sayings

Life is astonishingly short. As I look back over it, life seems so foreshortened to me that I can hardly understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that, quite apart from accidents, even the span of a normal life that passes happily may be totally insufficient for such a ride. — Franz Kafka

I was there the night John Lennon was shot, three blocks away. It left a lasting impression on me. — Michael Douglas

Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up with protagonists that haven't been in other movies before. — Paul Schrader

Art is either a complaint or appeasement. — Jasper Johns

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions. — Franklin Foer

The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic. — George Packer

Some, perhaps, would fall by the way. Some, old or sick, would drop out of the caravan and creep away into a solitary place to die; others would be picked off by gunners, defying the law for the fancied pleasure of stopping in full flight a brave and fiercely burning life; still others, perhaps, would fall in exhaustion into the sea ... In them burned one more the fever of migration, consuming with its fires all other desires and passions. — Rachel Carson

That's what I like about [smoking] ... taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag? — Beth Henley

All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth. — Oren Lyons

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important. — Franz Kline

I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely. — Adrian Tomine

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness. — Bill McKibben

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong. — Tony Bennett

[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life. — Warren Farrell

There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don't know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don't delay obedience. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

For the ones who find strange that I am currently reading so many books at the same time, I used to carry two or three books on my trips because I always had the habit of reading several different stories at the same time ... and now I've got a Kindler, where I have - so far - 89 titles. That's why ... — Me