Lefrancis Studio Quotes & Sayings

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hear the language, this English, double-jointed as Bedivere's limbs. It only sounds awkward. In its ability to join one concept to another as with pegs, its dependent clauses, figures of speech and cadenced alliteration, a man can say one thing five ways and yet imply a sixth; can change meaning with an inflection, a pause or a deliberate misuse of a word, can mock, scorn and flay an opponent without uttering one overt insult. — Parke Godwin

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket. — Alec-Tweedie

I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit. — Anna Akhmatova

Speak blessings, and write wishes. ~T.F. Hodge — T.F. Hodge

If Jesus can live in you and you are no different than the world around you, something got short circuited because Jesus makes a difference. — David Jeremiah

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer. — George Bernard Shaw

But I didn't want this. Feeling like a house of cards and realizing he had the power to hold me together or scatter me. — Natalie Herzer

He might have been a thief and a liar and a cheat, but he was a good person. — Judy Blundell

I am so sorry," a gentle, unmistakably feminine voice interrupted.

I stiffened, knowing exactly who the voice belonged to, and consequently why Dale and Evans had adopted their hazy faces.

"It's not an interruption." Dale shook his head, standing.

"Not at all." Evans also stood, his smile was small and hopeful, his voice coaxing as though she were a skittish animal.

I knew better. Where these two yokels saw a weak, sensitive flower - an angelic pushover, ripe for the pushing - I saw an opportunist in banana-cake clothing. Let the record show, I did not roll my eyes. — Penny Reid

You're great. You don't need to be sorry for being who you're. You're a miracle. You're a wonder in this generation. Unchain your true self! — Assegid Habtewold

Me Jev, you Nora. — Becca Fitzpatrick

She planted her hands on her hips. "Which twin are you?"
He studied the ground for a moment, then peered up at her, suspicion showing clearly in his brown eyes.
"Joe."
"Well, Josh, are you alone out here?"
"I said I was Joe."
"And I think you're afraid I'm going to tell how you frightened me so you gave me your brother's name. — Lorraine Heath

Just believe in what you're doing, and keep doing it. — Ricky Nelson