Earsby Street Quotes & Sayings

The "coffee break" - as a phrase and concept - was invented in 1952 by the Pan American Coffee Bureau. It quickly became a part of the language, as — Mark Pendergrast

Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! It will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. It will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society, and leaving the company of creatures of its own society to be with you. — Theophile Gautier

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve. — George Bernard Shaw

Christ desires nothing so much as to redeem His heritage from the dominion of Satan. But before we are delivered from Satan's power without, we must be delivered {175} from his power within. The Lord permits trials in order that we may be cleansed from earthliness, from selfishness, from harsh, unchristlike traits of character. He suffers the deep waters of affliction to go over our souls in order that we may know Him and Jesus Christ whom He has sent, in order that we may have deep heart longings to be cleansed from defilement, and may come forth from the trial purer, holier, happier. Often we enter the furnace of trial with our souls darkened with selfishness; but if patient under the crucial test, we shall come forth reflecting the divine character. When His purpose in the affliction is accomplished, "He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday." Ps. 37:6. — Ellen G. White

When your art fails, make better art. — Seth Godin

What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. — Victor Hugo

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce. — David Chipperfield

I've gone with you as far as I can. I'll be waiting for you. — S.A. Reid

I dreamt of your legs that night. I dreamt they were wrapped around my back while I f**ked your brains out. — Samantha Young

Kell frowned deeply. It is amazing, thought Lila, that he doesn't have more wrinkles. — V.E Schwab

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that? — Peter Berg

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature. — Koren Zailckas

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold

A medal is an inconvenient thing to give to a naked man, because he has got no place to fix it on to. — Karen Blixen

The greatest destroyer of the small economies of small farms has been the doctrine of sanitation. I have no argument against cleanliness and healthfulness; I am for them as much as anyone. I do, however, question the validity and honesty of the sanitation laws that have come to rule over farm production in the last thirty or forty years. Why have new sanitation laws always required more, and more expensive, equipment? Why have they always worked against the survival of the small producer? Is it impossible to be inexpensively healthful and clean? — Wendell Berry