Leslie Knope To Anne Quotes & Sayings

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting
the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. — Saul Bellow

This wasn't going to last anyway. He'd have ended things in another fifty or sixty years with her. He'd never want anything permanent with her so this really didn't bother him. This was fine. This was more than fine, he thought as he drove his first through the wall. — R.L. Mathewson

Failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman

There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon. — Michael Leunig

What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening. — William V. Shannon

Don't rehearse your problems, Dad always said. Meaning, we were only supposed to go through our problems when they were actually upon us. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going. — Rodney Dangerfield

Proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap. When the steel struck the flint, such men were rare as dragon's teeth; elsewise the world would not have been so full of slaves. There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave, the dwarf reflected. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there. — George R R Martin