Crossbeam Philadelphia Quotes & Sayings

Well, that was the clerk class for you. They might be completely without culture, but they certainly knew how to make themselves comfortable. — Sarah Waters

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans. — Jeff Greenfield

Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people. — Mao Zedong

Now was too big, like a giant dark planet coming up over the horizon. she wanted then. That's what he'd seen that day, a brightness with darkness all around, watching her, as if she were glamorous, as if she were a rare and mysterious creature. — Janet Fitch

Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors
however glad we may be afterward that we went to the trouble. — Barbara Kingsolver

I love Nancy Drew! — Carolyn Keene

I hate reading poems - school made me hate them. I'd spend hours interpreting one, just to read the memorandum and realize I'd be fucked during exams. I remember making a little asterisk next to every question I struggled with, and at the end of the paper, I'd realize I was looking at the fucking Milky Way. — Danielle Esplin

The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed. — Garance Dore

I'm not a star, I'm an actor. — Shia Labeouf

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show. — Norman Lear

Hi lover," he says to me, completely forgetting what happened before.
He knows who I am. He knows that I am the one person who he loves, has always loved. No disease, no person can take that away.
(p.205) — Michael Zadoorian

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it. — Jonathan Weiner

The story of mankind is the nomadic search for many, many truths along harsh roads bordered with flesh and bones and the apparitions of truths long since eaten by birds; it is looking for truths to fill a grumbling stomach, and spitting them out like pebbles when they have lost their flavor. — Breyten Breytenbach

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason. — Brian Jacques