Kolvenbach Library Quotes & Sayings

When someone gives you a special gift, never treat it lightly. If you treat it like a treasure, then it'll be one. — Dean Koontz

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. — Walter Pater

Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor. — Coleman Hawkins

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt ... — Antonin Artaud

In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven. — Victor Hugo

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there. — Robert Jay Lifton

We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. — Cassandra Clare

Because you have to keep them on tenterhooks until the end. It's like when you're playing cards: you have to hold a few trump cards for the final part of the game. — Joel Dicker

He was my drummer. My guy. Mine. I bit my lip to hold back a grin. — Wendy Higgins

I don't need panty discounts on anything. — Kenya Wright

Like O'Rielly, we'll grab the most important word of each sentence ... 'The' for example. Also, I'll say, 'I'm angry,' and the graphic will read, 'Colbert angry. — Stephen Colbert

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. — Albert Camus

I let go of all I no longer love, need, or use. I adore space. — Cheryl Richardson

They that know their God shall not be disappointed. They will stand the test of time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation. — Owen Paterson