Escallonia Gold Quotes & Sayings

I will only mention that the independent power of words to affect the writing of history is a thing to be watched out for. They have an almost frightening autonomous power to produce in the mind of the reader an image or idea that was not in the mind of the writer. Obviously they operate this way in all forms of writing, but history is particularly sensitive because one has a duty to be accurate, and careless use of words can leave a false impression one had not intended. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it. — Stephen Leacock

People are odd creations, this is my theme. — Niall Williams

Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again. — Duncan McNaughton

...the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection. — C. G. Jung

I got niggaz lookin' for Websters like George Papadopolis' — Ras Kass

I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox. — Dee Bradley Baker

The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites. — D.H. Lawrence

Let's refer to it as Saturday, rather than the day of my hanging, shall we? — Julie Anne Long

I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian. — John McCain

In the darkness, everything is different. The air feels thick. My skin itches. I close my eyes, but that just plunges me deeper into nothingness. It's like being out in space, drifting, without even the comfort of stars. It's like being buried in the earth, buried in my past, buried and trying to dig my way out. — Holly Black

I channel surf like probably most people. — Ed O'Neill

Reverend Don Marxhausen disagreed with all the riffs on Satan. He saw two boys with hate in their eyes and assault weapons in their hands. He saw a society that needed to figure out how and why - fast. Blaming Satan was just letting them off easy, he felt, and copping out on our responsibility to investigate. The "end of days" fantasy was even more infuriating. — Dave Cullen

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone. — Confucius

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all. — Joanne Harris