Plakatwand Quotes & Sayings

There is no such thing as a black middle class. — H. Rap Brown

I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside. — W.C. Fields

Nevertheless, I drove right past my landmark, an antique store which looked to me like an ordinary house with junk piled on the front porch. — Abraham Verghese

Gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design. — Peter Zumthor

Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from. — Ada Leverson

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us. — John Tillotson

This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights. — Martha Beck

No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned. — Charles Caleb Colton

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready. — Bill Bradley

We should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society. — Albert Einstein

Let the wealth of remembrances past be the link of friendship treasured. — Robert Evans

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love. — Leonard Cohen