Patres Conscripti Quotes & Sayings

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty. — Saadat Hasan Manto

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song. — Patty Griffin

Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them. — Harriet Martineau

Argument is not always truth. — Lajos Kossuth

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time. — David Bowie

The path of destiny is not always paved smooth with gold. — A.J. Darkholme

I came here ... in 1962. I'm not going anywhere. — Jim Boeheim

I love you, Cassie Dawson. I love you and I love our little..." With a sudden start, Red remembered something vital. A tiny spurt of fear flashed in Cassie's eyes. "What is it?" Red said, chagrined, "I just realized I don't know if the baby is a boy or a girl. — Mary Connealy

What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious. — Alan Ayckbourn

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness. — H.L. Mencken

When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties. — Philippe Petit

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast. — Charles Keating

The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through. — A. Whitney Brown

Weightlessness makes astronauts lose taste and smell in space. In the absence of gravity, molecules cannot be volatile, so few of them get into our noses deeply enough to register as odors. This is a problem for nutritionists designing space food. — Diane Ackerman

We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs. — Giuseppe Garibaldi