Lepiaca Quotes & Sayings

He alone had the courage to do what was right. — Jennifer L. Holm

But I got through the review, for all their Latin and French; I did, and if you doubt me, you just look at the end of the great ledger, turn it upside down, and you'll find I've copied out all the fine words they said of you: "careful observer," "strong nervous English," "rising philosopher."
Oh! I can nearly say it all off by heart, for many a time when I am frabbed by bad debts, or Osborne's bills, or moidered with accounts, I turn the ledger wrong way up, and smoke a pipe over it, while I read those pieces out of the review which speak about you, lad! — Elizabeth Gaskell

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. — Marcus Aurelius

Relax," he whispered. "You're as stiff as a board." No, I thought, you're as stiff as a board. Which was true, I could feel that against my legs. — Karina Halle

Rilke had a line...something about fishes. Or was that by someone else? Too much had already been written, too many pages, too many words. Maybe writers would be better to just stop, himself included, so that people could catch up. Maybe one day they'd reach a limit. No more books would be able to fit into the universe's bookshelves, not another paragraph squeezed in, not even a punctuation mark. Writers would have to find something else to do. It might be the best thing. — Eric Gabriel Lehman

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker. — Parker Stevenson

Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going. — Art Linkletter

Girls can do everything men can do ... just backwards and in heels — Ginger Rogers

I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language. — Mitch Hedberg

Maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, — Elena Ferrante

But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls! — Suzanne Collins

Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms that make up daily life
that's where great work comes from, and if you enable students in this way to discover those impulses and observations in themselves, those heroisms and cruelties in themselves, you create an atmosphere in which art can emerge. — Deb Margolis

I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world. — Albert Einstein

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man. — Robert Andrews Millikan