Old Wexford Quotes & Sayings

What am I doing here? — Arthur Rimbaud

When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful. — Barry Zito

Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted in a matriarchy.
Most city architectural designers and planners are men. Curiously, they design and plan to exclude men as part of normal, daytime life wherever people live. In planning residential life, they aim at filling the presumed daily needs of impossibly vacuous housewives and preschool tots. They plan, in short, strictly for matriarchal societies. — Jane Jacobs

We're not naked, we're skyclad! — Kelley Armstrong

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. — Jonathan Dee

I'm confident in myself, either way. I've pitched big games all my life. — Josh Beckett

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. — Herbert Spencer

Great teams are usually small-under fifty in total head count. (There are few examples of a team made up of hundreds of people who created anything revolutionary.) Big teams aren't conducive to revolutionary products because such products require a high degree of single-mindedness, unity, and unreasonable passion. — Guy Kawasaki

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him. — Nelson Mandela

When children see animals in a circus, they learn that animals exist for our amusement. Quite apart from the cruelty involved in training and confining these animals, the whole idea that we should enjoy the humiliating spectacle of an elephant or lion made to perform circus tricks shows a lack of respect for the animals as individuals. — Peter Singer

I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know where you stand. — Rachel Cohn

I was born ready, I'm Ron F****** Swanson — Ron Swanson

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting. — Thomas Eakins

Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion. — Stephen L. Carter

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton