Islacart Quotes & Sayings

Rich women, including the queen, made themselves additionally beauteous by bleaching their skin with compounds of borax, sulfur, and lead - all at least mildly toxic, sometimes very much more so - for pale skin was a sign of supreme loveliness. (Which makes the "dark lady" of Shakespeare's sonnets an exotic being in the extreme.) — Bill Bryson

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something. — Harry Chapin

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner

Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses. — Nadia Boulanger

I didn't care if it was magic. I just cared that I was riding with you. — Laura Ruby

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. — Georges Bataille

He was often angry at people because they contrarily refused to fit in nicely with his theories. And, of course, it was the people who were wrong. The theories had been advanced by the most Eminent Authorities, and proved by carefully selected case histories. His one satisfaction in life was that so many of the laws he had advocated to make people conform to these theories had been passed-despite strong opposition. — Mark Clifton