Cubbyholes Quotes & Sayings

Paul, who had far more to suffer than we have - called his afflictions light. Yet we often consider our afflictions to be heavy! Surely something must be amiss with the scales! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. — Mos Def

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute. — Esi Edugyan

When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character. — Kirk Douglas

I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library - they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces. — Helen McCrory

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it's in the mainstream. — Kurt Cobain

My favorite place in the world is the Harry Potter tour near London. — Jessica Williams

Curran got rid of Ascanio and saddled me with not one, but two bodyguards. God help anyone who dared to look at me funny. They would rip him to pieces, just to outdo each other. — Ilona Andrews

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. — Diane Wakoski

How many adorn their temples, and decorate their priests - but refuse to obey the Word of the Lord! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We do not want merely to see beauty ... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves. — C.S. Lewis

Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they? — Alfred Renyi

Tell me," Wittgenstein's asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth." Wittgenstein replied, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating? — Ludwig Wittgenstein

No matter what. I like to be different. Its not easy to work the way we want, because we have to deal with a lot of judgmental people, but we've always been in that position, so its nothing we cannot handle. — Oliviero Toscani

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. — David Korten

Life doesn't have compartments."
"Don't kid yourself. Niches and cubbyholes contain us," I reply. — Rodney Ross

Don't cry. You are stronger than that. — Marie Lu