Lafcadio Butler Quotes & Sayings

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear ... humiliation ... misery and terror ... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it. — Josephine Baker

Ray kept well away from the shed. He hated the loony gestures of the furniture, its bossiness, the way Maxine would shape a table to enclose the sitter at it, trapping him like a baby in a high chair or a school boy at his inkwell. — Helen Garner

I'm not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well. — Jai Courtney

Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own Hindus, who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, the Sikhs, for everybody; Sadat, killed by the organization that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian. My friend Yitzhak Rabin
after a lifetime defending Israel, killed
not by a Palestinian terrorist, but an angry Israeli because he wanted to lay down arms and take up peace ... Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity. — William J. Clinton

OUr past doesn't define us. It prepares us. — Maralee McKee

But I loved Narcissus because as he lay on my banks and looked down at me, in the mirror of his eyes I saw ever my own beauty mirrored. — Oscar Wilde

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success. — Francis Bacon

What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well. — Olympia Snowe

Apology accepted, son. Y'all listen to your better angels next time. They'll save you from having to worry about all the shoulda, coulda, wouldas. — Pam Webber

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language. — Karlheinz Stockhausen

Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it. — Kevin Hosey

On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I. — William Watson

The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Reason is dead." Death shrugged. "Was — Claire North