Mouches Volantes Quotes & Sayings

Re: Central Park
But the height proved the awesome truth that the park was made by man: nature re-created where it had been killed. — Rafael Yglesias

When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game? — Steve Sabol

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable. — Patricia Cornwell

It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us. — Mairead Corrigan

When someone asks you the question 'Are you ticklish' it doesn't matter if you say yes or no, cause they're going to touch you. If someone asks if you're ticklish and you don't want to be touched you should something like 'I have diarrhea, now don't touch me cause you'll make it come out ... and yes I'm very ticklish'. — Demetri Martin

I understood him. He wanted to die at home. He didn't want to be going someplace all the time for the sake of a hopeless hope. He wanted to die as himself out of his life. He didn't want his death to be the end of a technological process. — Wendell Berry

Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner ... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was. — Patricia McBride

Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is thought. — Napoleon Hill

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [ ... ] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy. — Jane Austen

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The night was a typewriter key that got stuck and kept punching all the letters on top of the others until all that was left was a black blob. No word, no letter, no message in the night for me. — Heather O'Neill

Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers. — Mason Cooley

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness. — Rebecca West