Eilen Jewell Quotes & Sayings

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils. — Henry David Thoreau

Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood. — George Herbert

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures. — Jelly Roll Morton

What foul sorcery is this?" she said. "Pretty standard foul sorcery; nothing special." "Okay," she said. "Just checking. — Steven Brust

That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand. — William Gaddis

Watching him snap someone's neck as easily as lighting a cigarette made me dizzy with desire for him. And when he stabbed someone I could barely see straight until we'd made a successful getaway, and he'd trace a blade across my skin, making me come. I'd received more scars from acts of lovemaking than I had from my whole childhood, and I wasn't even eighteen yet. — Nicole Castle

It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble. — Emily Dickinson

It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic. — Robert Motherwell

The leaf said nothing. Or maybe it said everything, which, as all colors make white, sounds like nothing. — Kathleen Founds

Failure to plan is planning to fail — Frances Greenslade

Sadness comes from feeling sorry for yourself and happiness from joy. I stopped talking — Anne Frank

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish. — Janet Suzman