Oxonian Cfs Quotes & Sayings

The ramparts of Vienna are crumbling into the sand; no one wants to live so confined, however, the entire country is already surrounded by a Chinese wall! — Franz Grillparzer

Boiled down, isn't love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else. — Carol Shields

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. — Lawana Blackwell

Walk very lightly and carefully, Wade. Look behind every bush. — John D. MacDonald

I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh. — Al Jolson

A gentleman's brain must be treated gently and never overburdened. It gets so little exercise. We don't want it strained. — Jayne Fresina

The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution. — Leonardo Bianchi

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead. — David R. Brower

Family is a place where love never ends. — Debasish Mridha

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — W. H. Auden

May the memory of this moment, here, the glowing impression of the two of us facing each other in this warm, bright place drinking lovely hot tea, help save him, even a little bit. — Banana Yoshimoto

Life's journey on earth is the only sacred travel. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people. — Nicholas Sparks