Farthin Quotes & Sayings

The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs?
-Clary, pg.266- — Cassandra Clare

I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars. — Jack Kerouac

I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.
But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. 'Love is not consolation,' she wrote. 'It is light.'
All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light. — Maggie Nelson

Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin'. — Howard Frank Mosher

The View from Europe And that was Africa: the long line to the south little higher than the Atlantic that defined it. The sea rolled its drums on the shore, broke in white foam, flowers for the hair of the girls. I sipped the wind with my nostrils, and the smell was the smell of fear. Two million- year-old skulls surfaced from soil fathoms, grinning their disdain at the accuracy of the new weapons. And that was Eden indeed: Adam was black and the woman, Eve, was black; and the serpent, master of the click languages, spoke to them sibilantly of how the machine would sound as it waited under the tree of death, offering them nothing but a pretence of life. 1988 — R.S. Thomas

I'm a commercial person, not an academic. — Alan Sugar

War is the absence of law, yet there are so many rules governing it. My enemy never obeyed any rules. — David Bowman

Every crowd has a silver lining. — P.T. Barnum

People who understand Doom don't blink an eye at song lengths. — Mike Scheidt

Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth, — Walter Smith

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated. — Natalie Imbruglia