Desmenu Quotes & Sayings

It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize. — Robert Scheer

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One our mission is to feed an audience of literature-hungry, time-constrained readers like you with a weekly lineup of talented authors, poets, and artists that we believe you will love. And if we can identify some of the next generation of literary stars, and cultivate an appreciation for transformative poetry and fiction, then frankly we will sleep better at night. — Carmen Johnson

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing. — Niall Ferguson

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party. — Stephanie Herseth

The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older. — Idina Menzel

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life. — John Wilmot

I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality
a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self
evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.' — Richard Foreman

Can't this thing go any faster?" Thalia demanded.
Zoe glared at her. "I cannot control traffic."
You both sound like my mother," I said.
Shut up!" they both said in union. — Rick Riordan

Upon death the believer goes immediately into the presence of Christ in heaven, a realm far better than this earth ... Heaven is our true home. — Paul P. Enns