Dumbarton Bridge Quotes & Sayings

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment. — Leo Tolstoy

When you face tough times but keep on going; when you're discouraged and doubtful, but still show up; when you are not sure of what to do, but you give it you best anyway--you will, in the end, succeed. Just be willing to do whatever it takes. — Mo Anderson

Living our lives was like living in a long house. We entered as babies at one end, and we exited when our time came. And in between we moved through this one, great, long room. Everyone we ever met, and every thought and action lived in that room with us. Until we made peace with the less agreeable parts of our past they'd continue to heckle us from way down the long house. And sometimes the really loud, obnoxious ones told us what to do, directing our actions even years later. — Louise Penny

Brothers Karamazov — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It's just another notch in the good ol' fucked up, modern America belt. — S.L. Jennings

I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don't have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I'm one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that. — CeeLo Green

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. — H.G.Wells

What's happened? screamed Mrs. Twit. They stood in the middle of the room, looking up. All the furniture, the big table, the chairs, the sofa, the lamps, the little side tables, the cabinet with bottles of beer in it, the ornaments, the electric heater, the carpet, everything was stuck upside down to the ceiling. The pictures were upside down on the walls. And the floor they were standing on was absolutely bare. What's more, it had been painted white to look like the ceiling. — Roald Dahl

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before. — Alan Jay Lerner

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. — Martin Kippenberger

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. — Isaac Stern

Then the heart of Eowyn changed, or else at last she understood it. And suddenly her winter past, and the sun shone on her. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The law ... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this. — Alexander Hamilton

Laugh a lot. Laughter will make even the dreariest situations a whole lot more enjoyable. — Robert Cheeke