Ladywell Tavern Quotes & Sayings

Government usually doesn't work. It doesn't work because it is political. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs. The difference between the political process and an honest life is the difference between parading around waving picket signs while hollering catcalls in front of the White House and getting up in the morning to go make a living. — P. J. O'Rourke

Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for itself ... Its power of exactly reproducing external reality, a power inherent in its technique, lends it a documentary character and makes it appear as the most faithful and impartial process for the reproduction of social life. — Gisele Freund

The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You shall mark
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
For nought but provender; and when he's old, cashier'd:
Whip me such honest knaves. — William Shakespeare

There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all. — Kim Basinger

Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is ... — Stan Freberg

Vevers remarked on what struck them as Yates's peculiar attitude toward women: 'He expected them to drink a lot and be beautiful all the time. — Blake Bailey

Science rejects the indeterminate. — Claude Bernard

My uncles used to call me 'Devil Child,' or 'Triple' for triple six. They used to tell my brother Chris that they were going to get the demons out of him because he was also a little crazy. But to me, they'd just be like, 'You're too far gone. There's no exorcising you anymore.' — Liam Hemsworth

Allowed?' Uncle Monty repeated. 'Of course not! You are implored to come inside here, my boy. — Lemony Snicket

If it's funny enough, you can pretty much do anything. — Dan Alatorre