Dec 23 Quotes & Sayings

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner. — Tracey Emin

You just can't imagine the kind of guy he was without seeing him play. He was a circus, a play, a movie, all rolled into one. — Lefty Gomez

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. — Liane Moriarty

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking. — Carol Burnett

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others. — Julia Ward Howe

The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times. — Ram Dass

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783) — George Washington

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction. — Aldous Huxley

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India. — Noam Chomsky

I was a little bit of a cocky kid. — Bill Ackman

Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is. — Marianne Williamson

Chain me with roaring bears;
Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,
With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,
To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love. — William Shakespeare

... the brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard ... — Ben Carson

I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'
I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs. — Charlotte Bronte

That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way. — Henry David Thoreau

You were overwhelmed by my desire? What planet are you from? (Geary to Arik)
Moronia. Every full moon they teleport the Morons to earth and let them loose. Consider this your first encounter. (Solin) — Sherrilyn Kenyon