Elsewhen Sewing Quotes & Sayings

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it. — Mark Spitz

And as I had lifted no petition to Heaven to avert it - as I had neither joined my hands, nor bent my knees, nor moved my lips - it came: in full heavy swing the torrent poured over me. The whole consciousness of my life lorn, my love lost, my hope quenched, my faith death-struck, swayed full and mighty above me in one sullen mass. — Charlotte Bronte

Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle ... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men of fifty, which, you must admit is very wonderful. Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won't learn their lessons or practice their scales. And sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children have a wicked heart or a bad conscience. — Gaston Leroux

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable. — Flann O'Brien

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies. — Thaddeus Golas

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss. — B.F. Skinner

Life is so uncertain that it is far better and more joyous to play your way through it than to plan or pray your way through it. — Dee Hock

Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you
either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation. — John Wayne

I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that. — Alexander McQueen