Langsdon H3 Quotes & Sayings

Moreover, the context is oppressively confined and local. None of these provincials, or their deity, seems to have any idea of a world beyond the desert, the flocks and herds, and the imperatives of nomadic subsistence. This is forgivable on the part of the provincial yokels, obviously, but then what of their supreme guide and wrathful tyrant? Perhaps he was made in their image, even if not graven? — Christopher Hitchens

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. — William Shakespeare

The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe. — Vanna Bonta

You have the most incredible eyes. I feel as if I can look into your soul."
Sid shivered. "Don't look too closely. — B. J. Daniels

When you see someone, all you see is what they let you see. — Robert Crais

When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have any knowledge of housewifery, or needle-work, or dress; or that they are able to talk on 'common things.' It is rude and foolish and shows that you really know nothing about them, either as a class or as individuals. — Eliza Leslie

The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work. — Stephen Kinzer

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller

even in the quieter professions, there is a toil and a labour of the mind, if not of the body, which seldom leaves a man's looks to the natural effect of time. — Jane Austen

There's always a siren, singing you to shipwreck. Some of us may be more susceptible than others are, but there's always a siren. It may be with us all our lives, or it may be many years or decades before we find it or it finds us. But when it does find us, if we're lucky we're Odysseus tied up to the ship's mast, hearing the song with perfect clarity, but ferried to safety by a crew whose ears have been plugged with beeswax. If we're not at all lucky, we're another sort of sailor stepping off the deck to drown in the sea. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly. — Renee Fleming

We are part animal, part human, and part divine, and the moment we forget the possibility of any one of those, we are lost. — T. Thorn Coyle

Can't, almost always means won't. — Ed Gawrys Jr