Largenumbers Quotes & Sayings

Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds. — Robert Aris Willmott

As if adult males were completely self-sufficient beings, as if a penis and a five o'clock shadow were all they would ever need to get by. — Tom Perrotta

Will you say England belongs to other nationals because they are there in largenumbers? — Raj Thackeray

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe. — Val Kilmer

Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days. — Nathan Sawaya

I'd believed I could keep out the tales and the toys but had failed on both counts. — Peggy Orenstein

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly. — Susanna Kaysen

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it. — E.W. Howe

When one is content, little will suffice. But without contentment, nothing suffices. — Hamza Yusuf

Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man. — Ray Davies

In reference to the search for Lincoln's killers as it took to the Maryland swamps:
The method of searching the swamps is simple yet arduous. First, the troops assemble on the edge of bogs with names like Allen's Creek, Scrub Swamp, and Atchall's Swamp, standing at loose attention in the shade of a thick forest of beech, dogwood, and gum trees. Then they form two lines and march straight forward, from one side to the other. As absurd as it seems to the soldiers, marching headlong into cold mucky water, there is no other way of locating Booth and Herold. Incredibly, eighty-seven of these brave men will drown in their painstaking weeklong search for the killers. — Bill O'Reilly