Melnicks Chicago Quotes & Sayings

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today. — Terry Pratchett

Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you. — Tom Waits

Then a strange thing happened. A US Senator named Millard Tydings finally introduced a bill that would give Puerto Ricans their independence. Every politician on the island supported it - except Luis. Throughout the 1940s, he repeatedly opposed the Tydings independence bill. He even traveled to Washington in 1943 and 1945 to lobby against it, saying that Puerto Rico "was not ready for self-government."54 — Nelson A. Denis

Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker? was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to be in the test they took notes, if it was not going to be in the test they did not take notes. Their silent, depthless stares were unnerving. I told myself that they were not stupid - for how could the final attainment of thousands of years of human progress be stupid? — Tod Wodicka

I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two. — Donald Lambert

Want a sugar cube? he asks in his old seductive voice. — Suzanne Collins