Hayslette Quotes & Sayings

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy. — Charles Stuart Calverley

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it. — Tony Curtis

We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world? — Ursula K. Le Guin

I presented him with an African violet, which I saw as symbolically useful, though I'm not sure the others understood the subtleties. (African violets must be watered from the bottom, not the top, and this, I believe, is analogous to the writing of sonnets in the twenty-first century.) — Carol Shields

I don't have a problem baring my emotions in music. That's one of the reasons I'm glad to have music in my life. I'm pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves. — Shelby Lynne

Do books, after all, change anything? For all their proverbial liberalism, have they made the world more liberal? Or have they offered the fig leaf that allows us to go on as we were, liberal in our reading and conservative in our living. Perhaps art is more part of the problem than the solution; we may be going to hell, but look how well we write about it, look at our paintings and operas and tragedies. — Tim Parks

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice. — Jo Walton