H Pershof Sylt Quotes & Sayings

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver. — Michelle Kwan

Don't let others discourage you from writing. Your peers will never see your point of view and they don't have to its your story, your journey; but keep writing and become good enough so that they will notice you as the very thing they tried to steer you from. Being a writer. — K.T. Hunter

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. — Walt Disney

Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of joy and hope: it speaks with a thousand tongues to the heart: it waves its mighty shadow over the imagination: it stands in lowly sublimity, on the "hill of ages"; and points with prophetic fingers to the sky: it greets the eager gaze from afar, "with glistering spires and pinnacles adorned," that shine with an internal light as with the lustre of setting suns; and a dream and a glory hover round its head, as the spirits of former times, a throng of intellectual shapes, are seen retreating or advancing to the eye of memory: its streets are paved with the names of learning that can never wear out: its green quadrangles breathe the silence of thought. — William Hazlitt

An honest politician is an oxymoron. — Mark Twain

My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich. — James Wolcott

It's lonely up in the top — Kermit The Frog

Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches. — Daniel J. Mitchell

Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication. — Max Tundra

The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence. — H.L. Mencken

I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ. — Gerard Majella

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. — Charles Goodyear

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting. — Agnes Martin