Julia Age Of Miracles Alienation Quotes & Sayings

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go. — J.M. Barrie

Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater. — Denis Leary

To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and that 25 percent includes a large dollop of imperialism, racism, sexism and homophobia, leaving little time for Lincoln, Edison, Clay, Holmes, Alcott, Dickinson, Adams, Longfellow or Fulton). — Mona Charen

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life. — Andrew Davidson

It's wonderful the way cats bound about,
it's wonderful how men are not found out
so far.
It's miserable how many miserable are
over the spread world at this tick of time.
These mysteries that I'm

rehearsing in the dark did brighter minds
much bother through them ages, whom who
finds
guilty for failure?
Up all we rose with the dawn, springy for pride,
trying all morning. Dazzled, I subside
at noon, noon be my gaoler

and afternoon the deepening of the task
poor Henry set himself long since to ask:
Why? Who? When?
--I don't know, Mr Bones. You asks too much
of such as you & me & we & such
fast cats, worse men. — John Berryman

The whole of the Targum deserves study as shewing how textual ambiguity or corruption may combine with doctrinal prepossession to modify tradition;
Chapter II, Section 2, Paragraph 1171 — Edwin A. Abbott

Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot. — K.d. Lang

I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read. — Junot Diaz

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place. — James Lee Burke