Haystacks Calhoun Quotes & Sayings

There are things in this world," she said steadily, still holding Zane's eyes, "that defy easy words. There are things in this world worth protecting, fragile things, secret things. Things that would do great harm should they ever be handled carelessly."
"Rue." The marquess loomed just beyond her.
"Things like magic." She touched a finger to Zane's cheek, a shock of warmth. "Things like love."

-Rue, Zane, & Kit — Shana Abe

I know nothing," I say, cheerfully.
"You never seem to. Have you ever wondered why that is?"
"It's very deliberate. I've found that knowledge is usually a burden. I prefer to be surprised and then eventually horrified. — Matthew Norman

Being a believer may be, if you like, as bad as being drunk; — G.K. Chesterton

Marry for love, stay married, and raise happy children who are quick to laugh and slow to judge. — Christopher Moore

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done. — Mark Twain

I'm at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it's important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril. — Douglas Alexander

Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness. — Hanif Kureishi

The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life. — Dan Kiley

For me, Shambhala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but an absence. Not the discovery of a place but the act of leaving the futureless place where I was. And in the process I arrived at Constantinople. — Thomas Pynchon

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact. — Pete Sessions

I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know? — Sinead O'Connor