Cvilization Quotes & Sayings

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light. — Georg Brandes

Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money ... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they were enriching the country they were impoverishing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are. — Eli Manning

I really have a love for comedy. I can't express it enough. — Brandon T. Jackson

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone. — George Hamilton

Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers. — Ellen Raskin

You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars. — Al Yankovic

He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers — William Faulkner

Our weaponry was not dropped onto our laps one morning. It is not manna from Sinai's skies. Since Agincourt, the White man has refined & evolved the gunpowder sciences until our modern armies may field muskets by the tens of thousands! Aha!' you will ask, yes, 'But why us Aryans? Why not the Unipeds of Ur or the Mandrakes of Mauritius?' Because, Preacher, of all the world's races, our love - or rather our rapacity - for treasure, gold, spices & dominion, oh, most of all, sweet dominion, is the keenest, the hungriest, the most unscrupulous! This rapacity yes, powers our Progress; for ends infernal or divine I know not. Nor do you know, sir. Nor do I overly care. I feel only gratitude that my Maker cast me on the winning side. — David Mitchell

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. — Washington Irving

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning. — Vaclav Havel

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey. — Jason Alexander

Forever my light shines on you brightly;
Love from above, I will send to you nightly. — Jessica M. Collette