Macdowells Leesburg Quotes & Sayings

And all her unsaid thanks so burned in her heart that all of a sudden she rose and left her tower and went out to the open starlight, and lifted her face to the stars and the place of Orion, and stood all dumb though her thanks were trembling upon her lips; for Alveric had told her one must not pray to the stars. With face upturned to all that wandering host she stood long silent, obedient to Alveric: then she lowered her eyes, and there was a small pool glimmering in the night, in which all the faces of the stars were shining. "To pray to the stars," she said to herself in the night, "is surely wrong. These images in the water are not the stars. I will pray to their images, and the stars will know." And — Lord Dunsany

Then I take a dump. Feel better. Take off my clothes and step into the pool. Ice water. But great. I walk along toward the deep end of the pool, the water rising inch by inch, chilling me. Then I plunge below the water. It's restful. The world doesn't know where I am. I come up, swim to the far edge, find the ledge, sit there. It must be about the 9th or 10th race. The horses are still running. I plunge again into the water, being aware of my stupid whiteness, of my age hanging onto me like a leech. Still, it's OK. I should have been dead 40 years ago. I rise to the top, swim to the far edge, get out. — Charles Bukowski

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime. — Alan Autry

Rainbows would never spring from a crock full of credit cards or computer printouts. — Carrie Anne Noble

Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save his face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? Always avoid the acute angle. — Dale Carnegie

He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO. — Cory Doctorow

I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no. — Natasha Leggero

Another question that would go unanswered in his lifetime was how good women got hooked up with dicks all the time. — Kristen Ashley

Progress does take time, it doesn't matter how slowly or fast you go, it will sure come". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor. — Zooey Deschanel

[On Hollywood:] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man. — Ethel Barrymore

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings. — Bill Gates

Only falsehood wraps itself in a flood of words. Truth is brief. — Jason Evert

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful. — Edwin H. Friedman