Nerling On The River Quotes & Sayings

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. — T. S. Eliot

Yeah 220, 221 whatever it takes!"
Michael Keaton character in "Mr. Mom — Mark Buff

A heart as hard as granite was slowly transformed to a heart ready to give and receive compassion. The story of the prince does that to men. It breaks them down, removes the rubble, and builds a castle where there once was a prison. — Chuck Black

Keep an open mind and know that you can always learn more. — Lorii Myers

When I was five. That's when I started to love film. — Dario Argento

No one gives it to you. You have to take it. — Frank Costello

I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth. — Swami Vivekananda

I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me. The thought of being a lawyer or a councilman or an engineer, anything like that, seemed impossible to me. To get married, to have children, to get trapped in the family structure. To go someplace to work every day and to return. It was impossible. To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day ... was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep. — Charles Bukowski

Over the course of my life I've had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women, many moved on to live happy, healthy, and productive lives, and I'm pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight. I guess, as the old saying goes: You can't win 'em all! — Hugh Hefner

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient. — David Coverdale

A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another. — Sidney Poitier

The rarer action is 35 In virtue than in vengeance. They — William Shakespeare

If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness. — Pico Iyer

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side. — Edith Hamilton

I glory in the emotionally commonplace — Lionel Shriver