Nettiradio Quotes & Sayings

I thought you were going to - you're standing under my window. Aren't you supposed to climb up here or something?"
"My ladder's at home. — Elizabeth Scott

I could tell you were a reader when I first saw you," David said. "You have that dreamy look in your eye, like you're wishing yourself onto a page. It's easy to see in the way you hesitate before answering my questions, before asking any of your own. You're not used to talking to us flesh-and-blood types — Bethany Hagen

And waiting means hurrying on ahead, it means regarding time and the present moment not as a boon, but an obstruction; it means making their actual content null and void, by mentally overleaping them. Waiting, we say, is long. We might just as well - or more accurately - say it is short, since it consumes whole spaces of time without our living them or making any use of them as such. We may compare him who lives on expectation to a greedy man, whose digestive apparatus works through quantities of food without converting it into anything of value or nourishment to his system. We might almost go so far as to say that, as undigested food makes man no stronger, so time spent in waiting makes him no older. But in practice, of course, there is hardly such a thing as pure and unadulterated waiting. — Thomas Mann

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity. — Dizzy Gillespie

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least. — Jean De La Bruyere

His cheeks, his eyes, his chest, his body, all of him was so well fed, so loathsome and repellent! — Anton Chekhov

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one. — Dashiell Hammett

Emotional labor is what you get paid to do, and one of the most difficult types of emotional labor is staring into the abyss of choice and picking a path. Your — Seth Godin

I love you breathlessly, my amazing man. — Paullina Simons