Itisal Dala Quotes & Sayings

There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind, for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse. He had often said to me: I am not long for this world and I had thought his words idle. Now I knew they were true. Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work. — James Joyce

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition. — Sumner Redstone

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. — Thomas Sowell

Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self. — Kenny Werner

A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don't care if filing invoices is beneath you. If you don't do it, who do you think is going to? Your boss? Nope. That's why she hired you. — Sophia Amoruso

If I move, if I speak, if I so much as blink, I'm going to lose this battle. — Tabitha Suzuma

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports. — Barbara Holland

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

To me it's as though you called me up out of the blue on a day like any other day, and asked me if I was grown up yet. — Kurt Vonnegut