Joannas Favorite Quotes & Sayings

The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission, getting further and further towards our friend, Captain Kurtz and our friends at 'Apocalypse Now.' — Dylan Ratigan

Oh, you are indeed there, my skylark! Come to me. You are not gone: not vanished? I heard one of your kind an hour ago, singing high over the wood: but its song had no music for me, any more than the rising sun had rays. All the melody on earth is concentrated in my Jane's tongue to my ear (I am glad it is not naturally a silent one): all the sunshine I can feel is in her presence." The water stood in my eyes to hear this avowal of his dependence; just as if a royal eagle, chained to a perch, should be forced to entreat a sparrow to become its purveyor. — Charlotte Bronte

I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not — Robert A. Heinlein

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it. — David Steel

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime. — Bill Gates

People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster. — Larry Sabato

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Caught in the center of a soundless field
While hot inexplicable hours go by
What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?
You seem to ask.
I make a sharp reply,
Then clean my stick. I'm glad I can't explain
Just in what jaws you were to suppurate:
You may have thought things would come right again
If you could only keep quite still and wait. — Philip Larkin