Onthenettickets Quotes & Sayings

It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble. — W. Edwards Deming

The body of Christ is a multicultural citizenry of an otherworldly kingdom. — David Platt

A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep! — Elizabeth Jane Howard

A shimmering of heat
Outside the grave
Alone I dwell. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Leave it to a woman to notice all of the little details that men often ignore. — Kenneth Eade

Turn from that road's beguiling ease; return
to your hunger's turret. Enter, climb the stair
chill with disuse, where the croaking toad of time
regards from shimmering eyes your slow ascent
and the drip, drip, of darkness glimmers on the stone
to show you how your longing waits alone.
What alchemy shines from under that shut door,
spinning out gold from the hollow of the heart?
("The Sea's Wash In The Hollow Of The Heart") — Denise Levertov

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years. — Lucy Larcom

Being together does not always mean happy. — Girdhar Joshi

Religious disintegration began with colonization. — Eduardo Galeano

There might be nowhere I would be at home. I might always be straddling two worlds, and finding solace in neither. — Eilis O'Neal

Terms swarm up to tempt me in the course of this description: Greek Orthodox, Romanesque, flying buttress, etc. These guessing words I find junked in my brain in deranged juxtaposition, like files randomly stuffed into cabinets by a dispirited secretary with no notion of what, if anything, might ever be usefully retrieved. Often all language seems this way: a monstrous compendium of embedded histories I'm helpless to understand. I employ it the way a dog drives a car, without grasping how the car came to exist or what makes a combustion engine possible. That is, of course, if dogs drove cars. They don't. Yet I go around forming sentences. — Jonathan Lethem

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager. — Anna Kournikova