Lillians List Quotes & Sayings

No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should. — Meg Cabot

The pseudoscience of astrology has no place in magick. Astrology has already died twice: once with the classical gods, and a second time after the Enlightenment. The complete failure of contemporary psychology to create anything other than a vocabulary of intellectual rubbish has encouraged astrology to resurface. — Peter J. Carroll

Clara was that rare combination: she was sensible and sensitive. — Louise Penny

I am happy to be alive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast. — William Matthews

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor. — Alan Dershowitz

I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person. — John Green

Piragua - cold syrup trickled over crushed ice - her favorite treat from her childhood in Viejo San Juan. — Rick Riordan

You accept that the shadows on the wall are real, love. I have no idea how to make you turn around and see the light. — Marie Sexton

I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted. — Bryan Cranston

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling — Seneca The Younger

In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions. — Joe Bob Briggs

A talent for truth is real property. If a man loves truth better than things, people like to be around where he is. Almost everybody wishes he could be honest, but you can't have the spirit of truth when your heart is set on dickering for things. — Lloyd C. Douglas

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. — Alfred Austin