Daumas Britsch Quotes & Sayings

Often, one compensates by playing an instrument, or going hiking, or joining some club. In other words, one creates a new type of society, when not working, in which one can feel more at home. — Isaac Asimov

Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about. — Edward Abbey

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me. — Ralph Ellison

My gift is that I always know when I've made an ass of myself. — Megan Whalen Turner

Minerva McGonagall is many things: gifted witch, stern Hogwarts professor, lifelong Quidditch enthusiast and occasional tabby cat. If there's one thing she's not, it's an open book. There's really no better way to get to know someone than hearing about their parents, their childhood, their first love, and their stubbornly held grudges. — J.K. Rowling

I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately. — Mark Gatiss

M + D = C, Monopoly plus Discretion equals Corruption — Edward Luce

Beginnings are the hardest because they're the parts that pull people in, that make them want the ends. And endings are the most painful, the parts that can leave you bleeding out. — Krista Ritchie

This passage and escaped via the cafeteria or — David Baldacci

Each of you, Jew and gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in the sacred war should do so now ... — Samuel Untermyer

Roses are red, violets are blue, so are my balls thanks to you. — Ralphie May

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else. — Beth Moore