Greatcoat For Sale Quotes & Sayings

(Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness. — Virginia Woolf

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. — Robert Breault

While Cabinets of Curiosities were intended to be microcosms of the world, and to symbolise a ruler's all-powerful control of his realm, Rudolf's came to mean much more than that. It become his refuge from personal and political turmoil, a private universe he could control. — Joanne Owen

The eminent cleric was poking fun at original sin. 'That sin is your meal ticket. Without it, you'd die of hunger, for your ministry would then no longer have any meaning. If man is not fallen from the very beginning, why did Christ come? to redeem whom and what?' To my objections, his only response was a condescending smile.

A religion is finished when only its adversaries try to preserve its integrity. — Cioran

These Korean shopkeepers seem pretty angry at me for not being Korean. — Stephen Schneider

Exaggeration is a branch of lying. — Baltasar Gracian

He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable. — Katherine Dunn

You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them. — Elizabeth Harrower

Cluelessness is not an attractive quality in a man. — Michael Ian Black

The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract. — Carl "Spider" Lockhart

Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal. But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances. In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity. — Anatole Broyard