Hitchariide Quotes & Sayings

New Yorkers love the bigness
the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too. — David Levithan

Hope was a hummingbird. Tiny in size and fragile by nature. Beautiful. — T.S. Joyce

And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool
but only to himself, of course. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For millenia migrating birds have filled the skies, heading south in search of
warmer climes and richer pickings. Conversely, these days, droves of our fellow beings struggle northbound against all odds, seeking safety and a better life. The key difference ? This vast exodus of human traffic moves in one direction only. A testimony to failed foreign policy and disastrous military intervention that may have sown the seeds of European disintegration. — Alex Morritt

I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were altered doubles of each other? Twins that had been separated and kept in neighbouring houses and raised according to different sets of rules as a social experiment? It was irresistible as a metaphor for division in the mind, for a split personality. — Nicholas Royle

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again. — Michael Franti

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music. — Moby

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism. — Terry Eagleton

A positive attitude and a sense of humor go together like biscuits and gravy. — Dolly Parton

Go often to Holy Communion. Go very often! This is your one remedy. — Therese De Lisieux

Begin to forget it. It will remember itself from every sides, with all gestures in each our word. Today's truth, tomorrow's trend. — James Joyce

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. — William Shenstone

No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy. — Frances Sargent Osgood

The difficulty of learning spoken English for a person profoundly deaf from an early age has been likened to a hearing American trying to learn spoken Japanese while locked within a soundproof glass cubicle. — Andrew Solomon