Loupes Direct Quotes & Sayings

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you. — Hal Linden

It holds my essential stuff, including a book - for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so rarely fit, my friends, into one's pocket[ ... ] — Michael Chabon

The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length. — Rex Brandt

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions. — Roger Craig Smith

Houses need humans," Red said. "You all should know that. Oh, sure, humans cause wear and tear - scuffed floors and stopped-up toilets and such - but that's nothing compared to what happens when a house is left on its own. It's like the heart goes out of it. It sags, it slumps, it starts to lean toward the ground. — Anne Tyler

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation. — Samuel Johnson

There are times when Pride must transform into Vanity in order to reach the astray echo of the reflection of self. — Lionel Suggs

Tallulah [Bankhead] was the foremost naughty girl of her era but, in those days, "naughty" meant piquant, whereas values have so changed that now, in the 1970s, it generally means nauseating. — Anita Loos

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better. — Mignon McLaughlin

I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi prisoner, becomes real to me and not just passing news. And it is at times like this when I ask myself, am I prepared - like Huck Finn - to give up Sunday school heaven for the kind of hell that Huck chose? — Azar Nafisi

Once I stopped expecting to like it, once I stopped demanding that losing weight be easy or pleasant, once I stopped waiting for the band to start playing, paying attention to what went into my mouth became tolerable. Because I wasn't waiting for it to get better. It's NEVER going to get better. It just . . . sucks. — Shonda Rhimes

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things. — Richard Chenevix Trench