Lernia V Xj Quotes & Sayings

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants. — David Burnett

Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend. — B.C. Forbes

Life, she felt, is like a long unbroken line when one dies in the same place in which he was born. Childhood doesn't seem long ago when every day a man sees the same things he saw the first time he began to look around. Then there can't seem such a sharp division between youth and age. A person would grow into his years like a tree. — Judy Van Der Veer

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. — Stephen Greenblatt

If they are wise, do not quarrel with them; if they are fools, ignore them. — Epictetus

Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live. — Anne Rice

Danger is a state of mind." Farzad informs me. "Conquer it, and you ride heaven. — Rachel Cohn

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become. — Peter Block

One day your prince will come. Mine took a wrong turn, got lost, and is too stubborn to ask for directions. — Kinley MacGregor

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex']
Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses religions - even when they worship a goddess - as the inventions of men to perpetuate their dominion. — Simone De Beauvoir

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it. — Albrecht Durer

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence. — Chuck Palahniuk

It is far more seemly
to have thy Studie full of Bookes,
than thy Purse full of money.
— John Lyly