Famous Brooke Astor Quotes & Sayings

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. — Hermann Hesse

I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking spiritually and mentally, and we help make sure that each one is on their game for their spouses. — Tisha Campbell-Martin

I made the contract with God years ago, that no matter what came through, I would say it, but if I ever hurt someone, I would stop. — Sylvia Browne

Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists — Amy Ridenour

The Bible is more to be admired than the Louvre Museum, and the Gospel of John is perhaps its Mona Lisa. — James M. Hamilton Jr.

Writing's like running downhill; can't stop if you want to. — Hilary Mantel

Public calamity is a mighty leveller. — Edmund Burke

At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that goes on in America
a belief that no commercial activities must be allowed inside the park, but permitting unrestrained development outside, even though the landscape there may be just as outstanding. America has never quite grasped that you can live in a place without making it ugly, that beauty doesn't have to be confined behind fences, as if a national park were a sort of zoo for nature. — Bill Bryson

But anyone who has experienced flow knows that the deep enjoyment it provieds requires an equal degree of disciplined concentration. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

And you thought: they're used to it. But that was how those who suffered less always thought about those who suffered more, that they were used to it, that they no longer felt it as you did. Nobody ever got used to it. All they learned to do was to stop letting it show. — James Meek

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting throught the wind Wanting to start again Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin Like a house of cards One blow from caving in — Katy Perry

Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin. — Frank Zappa

I don't write any kind of sequel or remake. — Bong Joon-ho

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. — Helen Hayes

You can't imagine what it's like playing to people who have been loyal to you for 25 years and haven't seen you for 15. — George Michael