Crucifixions Along The Appian Quotes & Sayings

Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink. — Barbara Pym

Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.' — Sarah Lewis

But Douglas was a genius, because he saw the world differently, and more importantly, he could communicate the world he saw. — Douglas Adams

People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people - a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could be more metaphysically puzzling than addressing an unseen audience, as every writer of books must do? And correcting oneself because one knows that an unknown reader will disapprove or misunderstand? — Neil Postman

President Clinton will, I think, lift everyone's spirit. He was a good president, an economic, balanced budget president. And President Obama, I believe, has been a very good president, too, and we will get reelected. You watch. — Bill Richardson

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing. — Marshall McLuhan

A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government. — Byron White

Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right. — Donald Judd

Better to scratch the wound than bandage it: those who lose a child shouldn't be consoled; parents die to make room for their kids, not the other way around. He wasn't being cruel, he just thought a gash that deep had to be respected, not swaddled over with cuddles. — Yuri Herrera

She was stuffing her innards back. Sewing herself up, putting her skin, her make-up, her party frock back on. — Louise Penny

Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow. — A.R. Rahman

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable. — Julian Barnes