Hasenbein Painting Quotes & Sayings

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. — Wyndham Lewis

"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now-isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once-but I loved you too."
Gatsby's eyes opened and closed.
"You loved me too?" he repeated.
"Even that's a lie," said Tom savagely. "She didn't know you were alive. Why-there're things between Daisy and me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget." — F Scott Fitzgerald

The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are the books that you come to understand more deeply with time, with age and with rereading. — Michael Silverblatt

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all.

~Ruby, pg 38 — Sarah Dessen

It had been so beautiful. Life had been so simple and so terribly beautiful. — Naseem Rakha

After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn't think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die. — Heather Demetrios

You are not your grade; you are better than that. Grades are indicators of time management and a rate of success. — Anonymous

A hidden spark of the dream sleeps
In the forest and waits
In the celestial spheres of the brain. — Dejan Stojanovic

And her [Eleanor Roosevelt] Grandmother Hall provided her really with a quite wonderful education, and a freedom that, within the framework of Tivoli (which is a framework of discipline and order) is also a very encouraging and loving one. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout the prevailing prejudices. — John Shelby Spong

It was such a hard thing, this virtue, it seemed to me. Keeping it was like having to grip the knife by the blade and defend yourself with the hilt. Ever since I'd been old enough to know about virtue in a woman, it had seemed like a bull's-eye painted on my head in rouge. I was sure, as I was led away, I would be better off without it. It was better to be done with it and be gone. — Alexander Chee

I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!" — Jason Mraz

I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it. — Eileen Myles

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. — V.S. Naipaul