Handfasted Quotes & Sayings

The visit has commenced. The box step, three-quarter waltz time. No fast moves or sudden stops. — Allan Gurganus

Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power. — Ha-Joon Chang

When I am introduced as someone from New Orleans, people sometimes say: "I'm so sorry."
New Orleans. I'm so sorry.
That's not the way it was before,not the way it's supposed to be. When people find out you're from New Orleans, they're supposed to tell you about how they got drunk there once, or fell in love there, or first heard the music there that changed their lives.
At worst people would say: "I've always wanted to go there."
But now, it's just: "I'm sorry."
Man, that kills me. That just kills me. — Chris Rose

I drank until I couldn't remember which hand held the gun and which the bottle. I drank until they were the same. — Ted Kosmatka

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of
inspector of desert water holes. — Edward Abbey

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. — Tom Allen

Anastasia, I earn roughly one hundred thousand dollars an hour. My mouth drops open. That is an obscene amount of money. — E.L. James

There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality. — Alfred North Whitehead

I am inspired by many people. First and foremost, I'm inspired by my mother. She definitely helped her children to feel unconditional love and I want to be that same kind of mother. — Cindy Crawford

Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine. — Os Guinness

Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book. — Tom Robbins

An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films. — Colin Hanks

Sometimes you have dreams about the day or something like that. But, for the story, it's just present and what you have left ahead of you to do and how things look that day that you reflect on. It's just there until you're done. — Colleen Atwood