Lapay In English Quotes & Sayings

The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a pecuniary beauty to supplement the aesthetic beauty, even in those objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths. — Thorstein Veblen

I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more. — Robert Stone

That wind of terrible and jealous beauty blowing over me - that dark fire, that music ... — Richard Matheson

I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum. — Sandra Dee

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right. — Mark Twain

Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle. — Jake Barton

Some friendships fade. Others dissolve under stress or disagreement. Still other friends just leave. Those that stick, however, are almost irreplaceable; and the sadness of long life is losing friends. — Hugh Hewitt