Hirshfields Monticello Quotes & Sayings

The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation. — Walter Elliot

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

Contradiction with this the majority of medical writers hardly admit that the dream is a psychical phenomenon at all. According to them dreams are provoked and initiated exclusively by stimuli proceeding from the senses or the body, which either reach the sleeper from without or are accidental disturbances of his internal organs. — Sigmund Freud

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time. — Cyril Connolly

Batman could be square, but he shouldn't be boring. — Glen Weldon

I couldn't stop. I'd never felt anything like this in my life- this rising in my chest, this need to touch. — Samantha Shannon

It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book. And it is such a fantasy. It takes you away from doing the dishes and the laundry. I think of this as a contemporary romance rather than erotic fiction. — E.L. James

There was the faintest of sounds, as of a gnat yawning. — Terry Pratchett