Kestenbaum And Mark Quotes & Sayings

Blue is no longer blue; it is the blue of the summer sky when it's is hot enough to cook eggs on the sidewalk or the blue of robin's egg just before a chick hatches. Or it's the blue that comes from the feeling of calm when they are holding each other close but aren't saying anything. — Christina Escamilla

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally. — Andrea Martin

Why does society always have to move on to something new when the old still works just as fucking good, you know? — J.M. Darhower

If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would. — Carol Ann Duffy

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any. — Burt Lancaster

That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon's papers. The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon's own creation. Why, then, asked somebody, had he spoken so strongly against it? Here Squealer looked very sly. That, he said, was Comrade Napoleon's cunning. He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence. — George Orwell

If only they were truly ants, wee could step on them and crush them. — George R R Martin

Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become. — Richard Branson

the eye does not see, what the mind does not know. — Amal Mattu

And perhaps that was typical of a certain . . . imbalance in their friendship that had always been there and which Clive had been aware of somewhere in his heart and had always pushed away, disliking himself for unworthy thoughts. Until now. — Ian McEwan

AMANI'S FAMILY-STYLE Italian Restaurant was nearly empty. Not surprising, considering it was three o'clock on a Thursday afternoon in the middle of February. It wasn't the sort of place you'd expect someone to take a date for Valentine's Day - more the type of place you'd have a family reunion. But today — Catherine Gayle

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have. — John Piper

I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then. — Ricky Schroder