Dunford Joint Quotes & Sayings

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished. — Nate Ruess

I held you in the square
And felt the evening
Re-order itself around
Your smile. — Ben Okri

The next thing about the air in the library is that no other place smells anything like it. If you close your eyes and try to pick out what it is that you're sniffing you're only going to get confused, because all the smells have blended together and turned themselves into a different one. As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, the books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the pages in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, a kind of hypnotizing smell. — Christopher Paul Curtis

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy. — Chen Shui-bian

A long time afterwards, she was to remember what an excellent chess-player Francis Crawford was. — Dorothy Dunnett

I need to let him go. But hearts don't work like light switches; they don't just flick on and off. They swell rapidly with love and bleed out slowly with pain. — B.N. Toler

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Curious, the pleasure it gives me to annoy practitioners of force. Do I actually want this Herr Benjamenta to punish me? Do I have reckless instincts? Everything is possible, everything, even the most sordid and undignified things. — Robert Walser