Madisonian Government Quotes & Sayings

She had a sadness that was so deep, but it still could turn to light in a second, and when I saw her smile I wondered what it would be like to make her smile. I thought ... I thought it would be like the discovery of smiling. — Laini Taylor

Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software — Erich Gamma

As I was walking past Tony Pastor's I saw Pat, the lesbian bouncer, throw a drunken young sailor out into the street. The sailor said, "That place is full of fucking queers." He swung at the air and nearly fell on his face, then he staggered away, muttering to himself. — William S. Burroughs

I am like a woman. I have a woman inside me. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large. — Douglas Preston

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.
[Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.] — Statius

I've almost never seen in China what Westerners would consider a fair fight. Somebody always pulls out a meat cleaver or picks up a brick to smash your head in. Or they simply gang up on you, like the cops were presently doing. — Rudy Kong

Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body — Howard Snell

Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing. — Teju Cole

I want to stand up and say so. He let his eyes wander over us. — Nick Wilgus