Plain Text Stock 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

I've done a Russian movie," Claire said. "Thank God they're still stuck in realism, Zola-crazy. Subtitling their films is like captioning a child's picture book. — Paula Fox

Regularity in Nature is not proof of the control of Nature by a Divine intelligence; it is rather the reverse. If something- call it matter, or ether, or x - exists, it must operate in accordance with its innate qualities; and so long as this x remains uncontrolled, its manifestations will continue unchallenged- in other words, there will be order. The same causes, the same results. That is the manifest signs of a natural order that knows nothing of God. — Chapman Cohen

Betrayal is one of the most emotionally painful experiences a person can have, with its potent cocktail of fear, grief and anger; this triggers our primitive fight/flight response," says novelist and psychologist Voula Grand — Voula Grand

Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games. — Tina Brown

It's the non-conformist who gives color to history. — Dorothy Fuldheim

If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin. — Bat Masterson

To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today, are doomed ere long to unite for the the last time, when the quivering lips pronounce the word - 'Farewell — R.M. Ballantyne

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. — Zachary Quinto

Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint. — Jane Seymour

The little girl smiled. The spaces in between her teeth were dark with blood. Aside from that, she was kind of cute. — S.M. Reine

It wasn't my fault that Candace followed me down to the water's edge and it wasn't my fault that I picked her up and held her down in the water and watched her pass on to the great beyond. She wanted to be there, or she wouldn't have gone down there with me. She knew she was killing me and she knew that I was not the type to go down without a fight. — Caroline Kepnes

That's it! You're Collin McCann," Wilkins said.
Collin grinned. Ah ... fans. He never got tired of meeting them. "Guilty as charged — Julie James

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world. — Mary Ruefle

Oddly enough, many people struggle to learn how to pray because they are focusing on praying, not on God. — Paul E. Miller