Merdiven Quotes & Sayings

But the poetry of that kiss, the wonder of it, the magic that there was in life for hours after it--who can describe that? It is so easy for an Englishman to sneer at these chance collisions of human beings. To the insular cynic and the insular moralist they offer an equal opportunity. It is so easy to talk of "passing emotion," and how to forget how vivid the emotion was ere it passed. Our impulse to sneer, to forget, is at root a good one. We recognize that emotion is not enough, and that men and women are personalities capable of sustained relations, not mere opportunities for an electrical discharge. Yet we rate the impulse too highly. We do not admit that by collisions of this trivial sort the doors of heaven may be shaken open. — E. M. Forster

Our universities and museums are respected around the country. — Jane Byrne

[reading a work in translation] is like viewing a piece of Flemish tapestry on the wrong side. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

a lot easier to seize the day than it is to seize a Tuesday. You have errands on Tuesday. On Tuesday you eat pizza again. Your favorite TV show is on Tuesday, you know? — Adi Alsaid

Let me know myself; let others guess at me. — Joseph Hall

Canine Psychology 101. Seriously don't look at it, (the T bone steak) Look for the dastardly villain. Atticus — Kevin Hearne

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts. — George Murray

I know you think I was probably too drunk, but it was the only moment of clarity I've had in months, Nolan. I love you. I meant it then, and I mean it now. I love you, with everything I've got. — Ginger Scott

The bozo who's going to go early John Woo all over the manicured lawns and flower beds just to show he doesn't give a fuck about convention. — Don Winslow

Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I'm not a politician. But neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America. — Peter Thiel

Grief. Death was not an intellectual conceit. It was an existential black hole, an animal riddle, both problem and solution, and the grief it inspired could not be fixed or bypassed like a faulty relay, but only endured. — Noah Hawley

America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history. — Bryant McGill

The only sound I'd like to hear from a Motivational Speaker is a death rattle — Dean Cavanagh