Incroachments Quotes & Sayings

As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other lives. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur. — Mary Ellen Mark

I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months. — Barack Obama

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes. — Bette Davis

The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet. — Christian Dior

Love that defied trite words or even description, that carried with it tenderness and passion and laughter and friendship. Love that made her eyes sparkle and her breath stop when she saw him and imbued life with more meaning and more purpose. — Karen Ranney

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

We were the first generation without a draft," he says matter-of-factly. "We didn't need to worry about life and death, so we channeled all that time and energy into obsessing over this TV show or that comic book." This — Glen Weldon

I'd love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney go, 'This one's gone!' while he puts a sheet on me. — Rosie O'Donnell

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature. — Boethius

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place. — Ben Crenshaw

Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise. — Daniel Tammet

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government. — Thomas Jefferson

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?
Y.C.: An unhappy childhood. — Ernest Hemingway,

Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby. — Greta Garbo