Harpsichords Quotes & Sayings

Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then. — Erin Gray

Truly, a command of gall cannot be obeyed like one of sugar. A man must require just and reasonable things; if he would see the scales of obedience properly trimmed. From orders which are improper, springs resistance, which is not easily overcome. — Giambattista Basile

Have a day when you wish you could vomit words, but can only dry heave. — Brick Marlin

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel. — John Irving

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. — Beverly Cleary

You hardly know me. Why do you want me to come with you?"
"Who knows? Perhaps you remind me just a bit of - "
"Someone you used to know?" Alec interjected skeptically.
"Someone I used to be. — Lynn Flewelling

It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love. — Julia Quinn

I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind. — Tahereh Mafi

Who wept at the romance of the streets with their pushcarts full of onions and bad music, who sat in boxes breathing in the darkness under the bridge, and rose up to build harpsichords in their lofts — Allen Ginsberg

It was a night of early spring,
The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;
Around us shadows and the wind
Listened for what was never spoken.
Though half a score of years are gone,
Spring comes as sharply now as then
But if we had it all to do
It would be done the same again.
It was a spring that never came;
But we have lived enough to know
That what we never have, remains;
It is the things we have that go. — Sara Teasdale

Where did the stereotypical image of the reclusive author in a bathrobe and slippers, indulging in vices and spending hours before a typewriter, even come from? I don't know about you, but most writers don't have the luxury of doing any of this. Otherwise we'd have no life experience and nothing to write about, anyway. — Rebecca McNutt

To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations. — Woodrow Wilson

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China. — Thomas Friedman