Pitcairn Island Quotes & Sayings

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. I cannot march up and down their ranks to pass them in review before a friendly audience. You need not fear any of that. Instead, I must ask you to join me in the disorder of crates that have been wrenched open, the air saturated with the dust of wood, the floor covered with torn paper, to join me among piles of volumes that are seeing daylight again after two years of darkness, so that you may be ready to share with me a bit of the mood
it is certainly not an elegiac mood but, rather, one of anticipation
which these books arouse in a genuine collector. — Walter Benjamin

You can fight all you want beautiful. You got involved with the wrong kind of people; evil you should have stayed clear from. — LeeAnn Whitaker

I have the person at home, the person who has his privacy, too. Michael Jackson didn't do the moonwalk in his kitchen. — Tracy Morgan

Sex is only boring if you are. — Merlyn Gabriel Miller

I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already. — Rodney Dangerfield

When you kiss a Mer-male, does it taste like fish? — Nadine Christian

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important. — Victor Levin

I have three boys. And I wanted to make sure it connected with them and then those guys who grew up like me, in environments like me.And then I knew something about science that your New York Times reader would be interested in. So I was thinking about it in multiple ways: I'll connect with the people who grew up like me first, and then the New York Times reader will be interested in the science because it's so good and they want to be "in the know." — Carl Hart

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. — Stephen Leacock

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist. — Jean Toomer

Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live. — Melissa Etheridge

I was in the state Senate in Wyoming, and we actually legislated. We offered amendments on bills and voted on things. — John Barrasso

Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened windows now bearded with snow, indifferent to the fact it was now cut off from the world ... Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster. — Stephen King

That arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been — Charles Dickens