Friartown Quotes & Sayings

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again. — Lady Gaga

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water. — William Whipple

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time. — Rod Serling

Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love. — Talal Asad

Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one. — Laura Miller

She took the delicate cups from his hands and filled them with the loose black — Amelia Rose

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews. — Steven Spielberg

The stars and stripes were fluttering bright against the rain, clear blue overhead, and their minds were saying the words before their ears heard them. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

There ought to be a law that a guy has to leave a rose on your pillow to let you know he enjoyed the labor you put into his walk of shame. — Z.A. Maxfield

Well first of all, I'm a singer. I sing since I talk. So the great ballad singers, the people that sang with so much feeling, jazz, blues, all those singers, they were songs that I listened to, records that my mom played for me, and then later I bought. — Gloria Estefan

How can we imagine a new language when the language of the enemy keeps our dismembered tongues tied to his belt? — Sherman Alexie

They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor. — Bob Marley