Oblong Pillows With Quotes & Sayings

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth. — Clint Black

Men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior. — Dale Spender

What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody! — Roger Waters

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres. — Nora Roberts

In the center of the sofa were two oblong companion pillows, shouldered so closely together that they looked like the Decalogue tablets. They were white, or had been white, and painfully stitched upon them with blue thread were companion mottoes, companion pictures. In the left pillow lies a girl, her long blue hair asprawl about her face, her eyes innocently shut, asleep. The motto: I SLEPT AND DREAMED THAT LIFE WAS BEAUTY. But the story continued, and on the next pillow her innocence is all torn away: there she stands, gripping a round broom; her hair now is pinned up severely and behind her sits a disheartening barrel churn. I WOKE AND FOUND THAT LIFE WAS DUTY. The pillows sat, stuffed and stiff as disapproving bishops; they could, he thought, serve as twin tombstones for whole gray generations. — Fred Chappell

calling colleagues "customers" puts a wedge between IT and the rest of the business. — Richard Hunter

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players. — John Kessel

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services. — Kenneth G. Wilson

Sometimes I hate him. When he does the dishes, he shakes off each one before setting it in the drying rack. Water flies everywhere. A couple of drops always hit me in the face. I have to leave the room to avoid smashing a plate against his head. — Tarryn Fisher

Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down. — Debbi Fields

I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest. — Evelyn Waugh

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel

I call my brother 'Sun' cause he shine like one. — Method Man

By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is a world without feeling ... But a world without feeling is a world without pain. — Daniel Keyes