Dashdot Quotes & Sayings

God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders. — Abraham Lincoln

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be. — Kate Smith

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else. — Cate Blanchett

If you can't see the beauty in the dirt then I feel sorry for you. And if you can't see why these streets are special, then just go home already. — Jami Attenberg

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist. — Philip K. Dick

No," said Jacob, "I don't mean to say that this life is just a party, any kind of party. It is a wedding, the most important kind of party, full of joy, fear, hope, and ignorance. And at this party there are enough places and parts for everyone, and if no one can play every part, yet everyone can come to the party, everyone can come to the wedding feast, and anyone who does not know that he is at a wedding feast just does not see what is in front of him. He might as well be dead if he does not know that the world is a wedding. — Delmore Schwartz

Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food. — Alan King

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India. — Lykke Li

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. — Thomas Carlyle

One measure, officially labeled the Riot Act, proclaimed that sheriffs and other officials "shall be indemnified and held guiltless" for killing rioters who failed to disperse or resisted capture, and that the rioters "shall forfeit all their lands, tenements, goods and chattels to the Commonwealth . . . and shall be whipped 39 stripes on the naked back, at the public whipping post and suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months." While in jail, moreover, the rioters were to receive thirty-nine stripes every three months. Another — Leonard L. Richards

We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

I only finished first grade. — Amnat Ruenroeng

We know things with our lives and we live that knowledge, beyond what any theory has yet theorized. — Catharine A. MacKinnon