English 19th Century Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Niles Rumfoord was something else again - morally, spatially, socially, sexually, and electrically. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it. — Nelson Mandela

She had a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. — P.G. Wodehouse

Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise. — Patrick Dixon

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume. — Clemence Poesy

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad. — Vince Clarke

You have to look at how chemistry develops. — Tim Hardaway

He paused until she locked eyes with him. "Count, Livia. Count out loud when you come for me."
"Two, oh, three, God, oh, God."
"Screw the biting. Just please, just more," she begged.
"Biting is next," he said.
By the time he was nibbling circles, she was counting again. "Four - your hands, use your hands."
"Five ... six ... seven. I'm never going to stop ... " She was almost panicked in her frenzy. — Debra Anastasia

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments. — Philibert Joseph Roux

The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment. — Czeslaw Milosz

He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to even see her, of being actually inside her ear. — Jeffrey Eugenides

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature ... yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing. — Muriel Barbery

The world ... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment ... — Hermann Hesse

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone's consideration. — Julian Fellowes