La Bayadere Quotes & Sayings

Rats! Sometimes it's very difficult being a dog ... Especially when it's raining. You're looking forward to a great breakfast ... When it arrives, you're full of joyful anticipation ... Then you see the water rise in your dog dish ... And you watch your pancakes float downstream! — Charles M. Schulz

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. — Tommy Lasorda

He read me Whitman, of whom he was very fond, and also Emerson.
I didn't like Whitman, and said so. I always thought him a writer who tried to bully his way to prophecy. Of Emerson at the time I had no opinions to offer. I found him out later to be a sugary humbug. His transcendental bunkum sickened me. — Patrick Kavanagh

To pass beyond communication was to pass beyond salvation; he — Stephen King

Because if I'm weird
And ostracized and friendless
It's not personal. — Gabrielle Prendergast

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. — Robert A. Heinlein

I'm so damned literary
and at the same time the waters rushing past remind
me of nothing
I'm so damn empty — Frank O'Hara

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how. — Bobby Darin

Sadness is a feeling of loss. There is something one wanted, and one doesn't have it - or there is a way one wanted things to be, and things aren't that way. That is sadness. Instead, you feel rootlessness. — Jesse Ball

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion. — Walter Lippmann

Nobody moved.
Everybody sat in the dark cellar, suspended in the suddenly frozen task of this October game; the wind blew outside, banging the house, the smell of pumpkins and apples filled the room with smell of the objects in their fingers while one boy cried, "I'll go upstairs and look!" and he ran upstairs hopefully and out around the house, four times around the house, calling, "Marion, Marion, Marion!" over and over and at last coming slowly down the stairs into the waiting breathing cellar and saying to the darkness, "I can't find her."
Then ... some idiot turned on the lights.
("The October Game") — Ray Bradbury

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. — Lionel Blue