Freddies Corner Quotes & Sayings

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. — Lucian Freud

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future. — Mike Rounds

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty. — Matthew Scully

I don't think our humanity is on some switch. I think it's more like candles on a cake. It takes a lot to blow them all out at once. — Jewel E. Ann

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. — Hunter S. Thompson

We spread our sleeping bags on the snow and crawled inside. The vantage point was dizzying. It was impossible to tell whether the comet was above us or we were above the comet; we were all falling through space, missing the stars by inches. — Anne Fadiman

In the end you always crashed against the unspoken barricades of their love, like the walls of a padded cell. The truth of their love rendered further meaningful discussion impossible and made what had gone before empty of meaning. — Stephen King

Then by the powers of StarClan I give you your warrior name. Spiderpaw, from this moment you will be known as Spiderleg. — Erin Hunter

I was lonely, deadly lonely. And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.
It was years before I woke up without that longing for a face pressed against my breast, an arm about my shoulder. The sense of loss was there.
I never was so unhappy, never felt so great the sense of loneliness. No matter how many times I gave up mother, father, husband, brother, daughter, for His sake, I had to do it over again.
Tamar is partly responsible for the title of this book in that when I was beginning it she was writing me about how alone a mother of young children always is. I had also just heard from an old woman who lived a long and full life, and she too spoke of her loneliness — Dorothy Day

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent. — Leigh Steinberg

The wine- it made her limbs loose and liquid, made her feel that a hummingbird had taken the place of her heart. — Jodi Picoult

Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down. — Debbi Fields

Left London, Wednesday, October 2nd, at 8.45 p.m. "Reached Paris, Thursday, October 3rd, at 7.20 a.m. "Left Paris, Thursday, at 8.40 a.m. "Reached Turin by Mont Cenis, Friday, October 4th, at 6.35 a.m. "Left Turin, Friday, at 7.20 a.m. "Arrived at Brindisi, Saturday, October 5th, at 4 p.m. "Sailed on the Mongolia, Saturday, at 5 p.m. "Reached Suez, Wednesday, October 9th, at 11 a.m. "Total of hours spent, 158+; or, in days, six days and a half. — Jules Verne

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn't. — Aaron Copland