Imitandup Quotes & Sayings

A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
From The Mower — Philip Larkin

I am always in love. — Ernest Hemingway,

The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks. — Johann Joachim Winckelmann

The Lord bless me and keep me and make His face to shine upon me; may He fill me with great grace and lightning-quick thinking. — Alan Bradley

I love to talk about sports. I love sports; it's just something that's in my nature. — Genesis Rodriguez

Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence. — Mason Cooley

I always knew that we were going to be successful and accomplish and succeed at our dreams. There was never a doubt in my mind. When we were recording 'Appetite For Destruction', we all knew. — Steven Adler

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think, — Walter Isaacson

I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail. — Amy Tan

One looks back to what was called a 'wine-party' with a sort of wonder. Thirty lads round a table covered with bad sweetmeats, drinking bad wines, telling bad stories, singing bad songs over and over again. Milk punch-- smoking--ghastly headache-- frightful spectacle of dessert-table next morning, and smell of tobacco--your guardian, the clergyman, dropping in, in the midst of this--expecting to find you deep in Algebra, and discovering the Gyp administering soda-water.

There were young men who despised the lads who indulged in the coarse hospitalities of wine-parties, who prided themselves in giving recherche little French dinners. Both wine-party-givers and dinner-givers were Snobs. — William Makepeace Thackeray

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy. — Richard Feynman

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier. — Alexander Siddig

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself. — Allan Bloom