Merlins Ace Hardware Quotes & Sayings

I woke to the sound of rain. — Sylvia Plath

Odd, eccentric people they were, these entertainers. Most of them had a streak of imagination, and most of them drank. Most of them were middle-aged. Most of them had an abstracted manner; in ordinary life, they seemed left aside, somehow. Odd, extraneous creatures, often a little depressed, feeling life slip away from them. The cinema was killing them. — D.H. Lawrence

Most teachers of the humanities lived itinerant lives, traveling from city to city, giving lectures on a few favorite authors, and then restlessly moving on, in the hope of finding new patrons. — Stephen Greenblatt

There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail. — Charles Dickens

I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting. — Claudia Schiffer

The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain
The grandest death, to die in vain
for love Greater than sways the forces of the world! — George Eliot

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. — Sidney Lumet

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. — Deborah Kerr

There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid. — John Lydon

This is wilderness, to walk in silence.
This is wilderness, to calm the mind.
This is wilderness, my return to composure. — Terry Tempest Williams

I think now, looking back, that we all die, little by little, as each of those we love departs before us. — Brian Ruckley