Crosswire Quotes & Sayings

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move. — Bob Dylan

He'd proven himself her Master even when bound, taking over her senses even without the privilege of touching her. — Joey W. Hill

Why the hell did he have be the human version of a sexually charged nuclear weapon? — Samantha Young

Yet the need for justifying the wealth and power of great corporations in the eyes of the people has never been greater. Why not hark back to Florence, Venice, Antwerp and Amsterdam? The great corporations could devote wealth and energies to cleaning up, improving and adorning our cities. Each large corporation might adopt a city and vie with other corporations to see whose city shines brightest. In the center of each financial district there should be a large plaza in which periodically poets, singers, storytellers and artists of every sort would compete for rich prizes. The corporations should see it as their duty to spot and encourage talent, and celebrate greatness. There should be social intimacy between the powerful and the creative. — Eric Hoffer

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair. — Mahatma Gandhi

John Wilkes Booth, who said, Sorry, I thought he was a critic. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswire across his character and disposition and general outlook. With some men it's secret and we never know it's there until they strike us in the dark one night. — F Scott Fitzgerald

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. — Mike Myers

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. — Margaret Atwood