Pitzel At Large Quotes & Sayings

The gift is contact, sensuality: you will be touching what I have touched, a third skin unites us. — Roland Barthes

Things that are impossible usually take time. — Robert Reed

It's never too late to be wise.
See how your spirit has been
fermenting. — Yrsa Daley-Ward

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Worry isn't productive. — Kate Kae Myers

Through touch, God gave us the power to injure or to heal, to wage war or to wash feet. Let us not forget the gravity of that. Let us not forget the call. — Rachel Held Evans

A shift in class values occurs in black life when integration comes and with it the idea that money is the primary marker of individual success, not how one acquires money. Adopting that worldview changed the dynamics of work in black communities. Black men who could show they had money (no matter how they acquired it) could be among the powerful. It was this thinking that allowed hustlers in black communities to be seen as just as hardworking as their Wall Street counterparts. — Bell Hooks

The outside air had altered her mood, from an unsettled elation to something within reach of embarrassment, even shame. — Alice Munro

I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity. — L'Wren Scott

The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart? — Douglas Coupland

Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge. — Marty Rubin

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes. — Oscar Wilde

A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically — Bangambiki Habyarimana

To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be objective. A memoirist goes in with all the baggage of a bad biographer. — Blake Bailey