Keyholes In Antique Quotes & Sayings

I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf's big with its yeasty rising.
Money's new-minted in this fat purse.
I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I've eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there's no getting off. — Sylvia Plath

Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. — George Orwell

It's almost as important to know what you need to not do, as what you need to do. Actually it may be more important, since it may save you a great deal of effort and possible aggravation. This is where restraint comes in handy. — Art Hochberg

What I do know is our state and country is currently backwards and upside-down, and we all are to blame in one fashion or another. — David Pratt

I try to sketch her in my notebook, but I am not an artist, and all that comes out are the wrong shapes, the wrong lines. I cannot hold on to anything that's her. — David Levithan

Don't you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this? — L.M. Montgomery

Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have. — George Eads

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life. — Otfried Preussler

Until we are willing to question many of the specifics of the male sex role, including most of the seven norms and stereotypes that psychologist Robert Levant names in a listing of its chief constituents--'avoiding femininity, restrictive emotionality, seeking achievement and status, self-reliance, aggression, homophobia, and nonrelational attitudes toward sexuality'--we are going to deny men their full humanity. Feminist masculinity would have as its chief constituents integrity, self-love, emotional awareness, assertiveness, and relational skill, including the capacity to be empathic, autonomous, and connected. — Bell Hooks

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions. — Jaime Lerner

As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible. — Viggo Mortensen

The people want government that works for them at every level. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down. — John Wayne

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man. — Newell Dwight Hillis

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully. — Mata Amritanandamayi