Halyards Menu Quotes & Sayings

Everybody grows up by leaps, and not by a steady climb like a mountaineer. — John Crowley

You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching. — Hamza Yusuf

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. — Gertrude Stein

But even we, with our supposed mastery of the English language, were not immune to the shortcoming of our vocabularies.
Words can only help you if you speak them. — Bianca Phipps

We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual - in the name of man. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Look pal, I'm a superhero, not a liability. — Steven Poore

Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this Eve to the grinning Unknown. A million doors had once been barred against the evil visitants, a million prayers mumbled, a million candles lit. There was something majestic about the idea, Henderson reflected. — Robert Bloch

Last time you said that, you meant for me to stick my hand down your pants." "Yeah, that's what I mean now. — Bella Love

I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face. — Evangeline Lilly

Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is ... emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty. That, today, is where it is at, and will continue to be at for a long time to come. — Robert M. Pirsig

Every day grows more amnesiac about its recent past. — Hilton Kramer

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? — Emily Bronte

Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can get away with it. — Sufjan Stevens

I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend. — Dianna Agron