Duchesneys Quotes & Sayings

I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's. — Donalyn Miller

Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb. He really was there all those years, a flesh-and-blood presence streaming off the wallpaper, digging up the dogwoods, polishing the finials... smelling of sawdust and sweat and designer cologne. But I ached as if he were already gone. — Alison Bechdel

Drawing is something I do on the side, I like to see it be of use at times. — Coeur De Pirate

My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people. — Louis C.K.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing. — Sean Connery

I thought of the places I would be leaving, of what they were and what they could become. I pictured trees returning to the bare slopes, fish and whales returning to the bay. I thought of what my children and grandchildren might find here, and of how those who worked the land and sea might prosper if this wild vision were to be realized. — George Monbiot

You know what it's like when you're trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake? — Haruki Murakami

The eye seems to be responding to something living. — William Baziotes

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin. — Ray Bradbury

I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sense of fun throughout the whole thing I felt like I could get away with it. Like "5 A.M."; that song's in a minor key and I'm just wailing away and it could have been just wallowing depression, but it's not. — Hamilton Leithauser