P2317h Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I have loved as none in the world ever loved - with an insensate and furious passion - so violent that I am astonished it did not cause my heart to burst asunder. Ah, what nights - what nights! — Theophile Gautier

a few words spoken beneath the moon, love
may be, but I write your name
in the celestial dust that lingers
in the air, above
the veilchenblau roses, callow
and pale — John Daniel Thieme

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted. — John Darnielle

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory. — Herbert V. Prochnow

Life is about progress,
not perfection. — Kimberly Kolb

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. — Charles Churchill

The furniture would have missed you?
Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and tables don't go to the grave so soon. Every time I take the soft cloth to that stuff in the drawingroom, I could say, 'Well, you know a bit more'. — Elizabeth Bowen

Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night. — Stephen Crane

What the hell is in swan saliva that burns so badly? — John Green

The sense of fear and loss that accompanies the letting go of dreams that will never be is best described by the German word torschlusspanik, defined as "panic at the thought that a door between oneself and life's opportunities has shut. — KathleenA. Brehony

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. — Michael Crichton

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right. — Julia Gillard