Michelozzi Vase Quotes & Sayings

He'd never played in Wrigley Field - the Cubs had still been out at old West Side Grounds when he came through as a catcher for the Cardinals before the First World War. But seeing the ballpark in ruins brought the reality of this war home to him like a kick in the teeth. Sometimes big things would do that, sometimes little ones; he remembered a doughboy breaking down and sobbing like a baby when he found some French kid's dolly with its head blown off. Muldoon's eyes slid over toward Wrigley for a moment. "Gonna be a long time before the Cubs win another pennant," he said, as good an epitaph as any for the park - and the city. — Harry Turtledove

It had a fellar call Five Past Twelve. A test look at him and say, 'Boy, you black like midnight.' Then the test take a second look and say, 'No, you more like Five Past Twelve. — Samuel Selvon

The woman speaks, stops, then after what must have been a long speech by the person on the other end of the line, says, " ... just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives." Mirabelle cannot fathom the meaning of this sentence, as she has been in pain her whole life, and yet it remains unchanged. — Steve Martin

Aye," said Rob Anybody. "Gods, elementals, demons, spirits ... sometimes it's hard to tell 'em apart wi'oot a map. — Terry Pratchett

Did you pray?" she asks.
"For the last time," I say, narrowing my kohl-lined black eyes at her, "I refuse to pray to my own parents. It's ridiculous. — Kiersten White

Malone had been raised by a lady both Irish and Catholic, in a good bourgeois home in which careless table manners were a sin, much less this storm in his heart. — Andrew Holleran

Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised?
I'll say as they say, and persever so,
And in this mist at all adventures go. — William Shakespeare

This universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists. — Peter F. Hamilton

I've been pretty transparent with all that I've done. I think my work speaks a lot for who I am. So, I don't think there's a particular thing I'd like them to know. — Tyler Perry

It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so. — Karl Popper

All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects ... Conversely, much great religious art has been written or painted or composed by people who thought they were atheists. — Madeleine L'Engle

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun. — Miranda Cosgrove

For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
[Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di,
Carior est illis homo quam sibi.] — Juvenal

I've wanted you," he'd murmured, his lips barely touching mine, "for so long. — Jocelyn Davies

There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth. — Hazrat Inayat Khan