Hardacre Farm Quotes & Sayings

Everywhere I went during those days, the streets were filled with talk of the Mets. It was one of those rare moments of unanimity when everyone was thinking about the same thing. People walked around with transistor radios tuned to the game, large crowds gathered in front of appliance store windows to watch the action on silent televisions, sudden cheers would erupt from corner bars, from apartment windows, from invisible rooftops. First it was Atlanta in the playoffs, and then it was Baltimore in the Series. Out of eight October games, the Mets lost only once, and when the adventure was over, New York held another ticker-tape parade, this one even surpassing the extravaganza that had been thrown for the astronauts two months earlier. More than five hundred tons of paper fell into the streets that day, a record that has not been match sense. — Paul Auster

Reading makes you learn more. — Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

I have my own tastes and I have my my own ... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise. — Regina Spektor

In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Children grow away from busy parents because busy parents grow way from the children. — Shelly Branch

Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. — Anonymous

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape. — Neil LaBute

I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids. — Stephen Dorff

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star. — Natalie Portman

Brian closed the condition book, pressed his fingers to his tired eyes. Like Paddy, he wasn't quite sure he trusted the computer, but he was willing to fiddle with it a bit. Three times a week he spent an hour trying to figure the damn thing out ith the notion that eventually he could use it to generate his charts.
Graphics, they called it, he thought, shifting to give the machine a suspicious glare.Timesaving and efficient, if you believed all the hype. Well,tonight he was to damn tired to spend an hour trying to be timesaving and efficient.
He hadn't had a decent night's sleep in a week. Which had nothing to do with his job, he admitted. And everything to do with his boss's daughter. — Nora Roberts

One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, I will always be here. — Simone De Beauvoir

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia. — Anatoly Chubais

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society. — Alexis De Tocqueville

She had always called me 'you.' 'Is that you?' on the telephone, 'Can you? Will you? Do you?' so that I imagined, like a fool, for a few minutes at a time, there was only one 'you' in the world and that was me. — Graham Greene