Cosmopolites Fort Quotes & Sayings

I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest! — Camille Claudel

A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. — Jean Burden

Christ's incarnation was less a reaction or response than it was a proactive demonstration of love: — John S. Dickerson

I think every beautiful tale in the world hides the truth and reveals it little by little. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You will never be completely free from risk, if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison. — Edward Snowden

Let us dance with passion. Our hearts will be dancing with joy and the magic of the music. — Debasish Mridha

American voices, country voices, high-pitched and without mercy. He lies freezing, wondering if the bedsprings will give him away. For possibly the first time he is hearing America as it must sound to a non-American. Later he will recall that what surprised him most was the fanaticism, the reliance not just on flat force but on the rightness of what they planned to do ... he'd been told long ago to expect this sort of thing from Nazis, and especially from Japs - we were the ones who always played fair - but this pair outside the door now are as demoralizing as a close-up of John Wayne (the angle emphasizing how slanted his eyes are, funny you never noticed before) screaming BANZAI! — Thomas Pynchon

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. — Theodore Roosevelt

I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for. — Catherine Crier

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general. — George Bernard Shaw

We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken. — John Daniel

Mrs. Lammle's manner changed under the poor silly girl's embraces, and she turned extremely pale: directing one appealing look, first to Mrs. Boffin, and then to Mr. Boffin. Both understood her instantly, with a more delicate subtlety than much better educated people, whose perception came less directly from the heart, could have brought to bear upon the case. — Charles Dickens