Combray Lektira Quotes & Sayings

I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded. — George Carlin

That was the worst period of all: it is my profession to imagine, to think in images: fifty times through the day, and immediately I woke during the night, a curtain would rise and the play would begin: always the same play, Sarah making love, Sarah with X, doing the same things that we had done together, Sarah kissing in her own particular way, arching herself in the act of sex and uttering that cry like pain, Sarah in abandonment. I would take pills at night to make me sleep quickly, but I never found any pills that would keep me asleep till daylight. — Graham Greene

Work isn't really work for me. — John Kluge

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time. — Jonathan Swift

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability. — John D. Rockefeller

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made. — Stanley Kubrick

You were the dead; theirs was the future. — George Orwell

When you are Atlas you must carry a heavy load and if you drop it a lot of people suffer ... — Philip K. Dick

but you can't preserve at all. — Orson Scott Card

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness ... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now. — Kristin Scott Thomas

I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar. — Bobby McFerrin

When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.' — Ronald Reagan