Haruf Plainsong Quotes & Sayings

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy. — Charles Tennyson Turner

In a free society, the 'vision thing' is left to private individuals; civil servants are kept on a tight leash, because free people understand that a 'visionary' bureaucrat is a voracious one and that the grander the government ... the poorer and less free the people. — Ilana Mercer

I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1. — Ed Balls

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised. — James Russell Lowell

I left my apartment in London and I sold everything. I literally had $1000 and a suitcase when I got on the plane. The next day I enrolled in my first acting class. We had some great people, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Molly Ringwald. It was very inspirational. — Jane Leeves

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book. — Elizabeth Gilbert

On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?. — Eric S. Raymond

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you. — Audrey Hepburn

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. — Karl Lagerfeld

I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy. — Alan Jackson

We're not in love-we're just trying to wash away the dirt. — Letitia Dean

... What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is - terror. — Thomas Mann

She's not a demon, she's a woman. In this case, that's worse. — Alice Hoffman

To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year! — Cate Blanchett