Grumpys Aiken Quotes & Sayings

At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before — Herman Melville

Doll may have been the loneliest woman in the world, and she was the loneliest child, and there they were, the two of them together, keeping each other warm in the rain. — Marilynne Robinson

I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window. — Pablo Neruda

The human face shines as it speaks of things
Near itself, thoughts full of dreams.
The human face shines like a dark sky
As it speaks of those things that oppress the living — Robert Bly

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible. — Rollo May

I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies. — Nicole Kidman

People say: 'Models are so young, they're so skinny.' But Mr. Balenciaga used models at 16, and that will never change. People say they are skinny, but there is a difference between skinny and sick. If someone is sick, they're sick. It's not because of fashion. If I have flu, I have flu; it's not because I work in fashion. — Domenico Dolce

Taking on responsibilities that properly belong to someone else means behaving irresponsibly toward yourself. You need to know where you end and someone else begins. You need to understand boundaries. You need to know what is and is not up to you, what is and is not in your control, what is and is not your responsibility. — Nathaniel Branden

She meant I was hungover. I had been slaughtered, legless, trolleyed, slashed, shredded, plastered, polluted, pissed. I thought, I do love my country's relationship with alcohol. How would I ever exist in the United States? I suppose I would have grief counselling instead. (77) — Peter Carey

If you hire people who are smarter than you, maybe you are showing that you are a little bit smarter than them. — Howard Wilkinson

If you get into a game of talking to the media, you keep the story alive. Information is oxygen. Without it they die. — Michael Connelly

It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting. — Eddie Vedder

Strangely, it is the pig himself becomes
The god inside the car — Roy Fuller