Iyut Bing Quotes & Sayings

The gabled eaves, with Legolandish civic pride, the church clock chimes nine golden times; an Alp rears up on every side; — David Mitchell

It had turned out that climbing a tree was more difficult than it looked. It was harder than warrior pose in yoga, than teaser in Pilates, than the elliptical or the Reformer. Rebecca thought that if no one had thought of it yet, soon enough someone in the city would spearhead a craze for tree climbing in Central and Prospect Parks, and it would become the talk of every cocktail party: have you tried that large oak by the Sheep Meadow? Oh, it's completely changed my body. — Anna Quindlen

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism
unless the criticized isn't within earshot. — William Faulkner

But in the South, our smiles are our weapons and only a native knows a snarl from sincerity. — Alessandra Torre

I've never bothered about what people said. — Margaret Mitchell

Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity. — Dana Goodyear

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking."
"Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly. — Brandon Sanderson

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important. — Marya Mannes

An angry man is unfit to pray. — Nachman Of Breslov

I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different ... — Joss Whedon

Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers ... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world. — Karl Barth

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison
Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion. — Philip Larkin

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'. — Cleopatra

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see. — Adrienne Rich