Lenguas Indoeuropeas Quotes & Sayings

We were the only three people awake in a world half asleep and the air felt heavy with maybe. — Cath Crowley

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself. — Jeffrey Kluger

I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged. — Maira Kalman

Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't. — Kacey Musgraves

Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer. — E.C. Riegel

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me. — Jimmy Carter

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth. — Harmeet Singh

If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards. — John Cusack

If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The snake jabbed its tail at a little sign next to the glass. Harry peered at it. Boa Constrictor, Brazil. — J.K. Rowling

The Tower of Babel" ...
The undersigned citizens, being artists, painters, sculptors, architects, and others devoted to and desirous preserving the amenities of Paris, wish to protest, in the name of our national good taste, against such an erection in the very heart of our city, as the monstrous and useless Eiffel Tower, already christened ... " The Tower of Babel" ...
How much longer is the City of Paris to be a play-ground for these barbarous and sordid imaginations which disfigure and dishonor her? For the Eiffel Tower, which even commercially minded America rejected, is a public dishonor to our city. All our historic buildings, our monuments of rare and appealing beauty, are dwarfed and humiliated by this monstrous apotheosis of the factory chimney whose odious shadow will lie over the city ...
Plea to the Exposition Director in opposition to the Eiffel Tower, signed by artists and writers and published in Le Temps, 1887 — Carol McCleary

Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell ... — Cherise Sinclair