Madhousesalon Quotes & Sayings

the generation next to the early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the subsequent years have not sufficed to clear it up. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy. — James K. Polk

Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions. — James Bovard

Morning was in the room and pigeons were gargling on the fire escape. — Truman Capote

The things that I have done that haven't been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public view, which is great. It's terrible, when you're a theater writer, to have a big flop publicly. — Robert Lopez

see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment. — Colson Whitehead

And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that. — Aberjhani

You either have a feeling or you don't" - Min — Daniel Handler

It can't possibly be a bad idea if my future self hasn't traveled back in time to stop me." Eva's — Alanea Alder

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson

If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence ... eventually, things can go really, really wrong, — Ayelet Waldman

If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. — Alex Haley