General Thomas Holcomb Quotes & Sayings

My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same. — Amy Winehouse

He got up, wishing to go around, but the aunt handed him the snuffbox right over Helene, behind her back. Helene moved forward so as to make room and, smiling, glanced around. As always at soirees, she was wearing a gown in the fashion of the time, quite open in front and back. Her bust, which had always looked like marble to Pierre, was now such a short distance from him that he could involuntarily make out with his nearsighted eyes the living loveliness of her shoulders and neck, and so close to his lips that he had only to lean forward a little to touch her. He sensed the warmth of her body, the smell of her perfume, and the creaking of her corset as she breathed. He saw not her marble beauty, which made one with her gown, he saw and sensed all the loveliness of her body, which was merely covered by clothes. And once he had seen it, he could not see otherwise, as we cannot return to a once-exposed deception. — Leo Tolstoy

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength. — Isabel Allende

Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present. — John Kuypers

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect. — Ray Kurzweil

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music. — Todd Rundgren