Hadastonished Quotes & Sayings

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of? — Barbra Streisand

Science only goes so far, then comes God.
- Noah Calhoun- — Nicholas Sparks

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels. — Ethel Waters

I am the dust and dirt from which this earth grows. — Sima Mittal

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for. — Lucy Grealy

Make every decision as if you owned the company. — Robert Townsend

He'd been toting it, and checking it, and packing and unpacking, all the way since fate was on the river - that's how long - the Big River - Fate Marable and his riverboat caliope (Cleo seemed to recall), who hadastonished the landings between New Orleans and St. Louis with the wild, harsh, skirling Gypsy music, and left there, echoing in the young and restless even as it dies off round the bed; to linger with them thereafter, in the pelting roar of November midnights and the clickety-clack of lonesome valley freights, until they up one night and go after it in a battered bus, following the telephone wires that make a zigzag music staff against the evening sky - some variation of that basic beginning could be told for everyone who jazz has touched and altered. — John Clellon Holmes

As I've reflected back on both, I realize that my neighborhood was just like The Wire. We had the drug dealing, the police brutality, the murders. Well, it was /almost/ a perfect match. We had everything The Wire had except for universal critical acclaim and the undying love of white people who saw it. — Baratunde R. Thurston

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone. — David Edwards

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music. — Walter J. Phillips

Real friends tell you the truth ... even when you want them to shut up. — Wes Fesler