Pleasance Lowengard Quotes & Sayings

You used to say a man knows things and when he stops knwing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out. — Charles Sheffield

For only the body would die, whereas the loss of a soul is a great loss which is apparently without end; — Teresa Of Avila

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians. — William Law

It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on a psychological level, we can describe as mental health or happiness. Like buildings, we, too, contain opposites which can be more or less successfully handled. — Alain De Botton

All of us. All of us. We're doomed. — David Mamet

Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land. — J.R.R. Tolkien

needed to get shit-faced and forget everything that had happened. — Alan Russell

Sing a song correctly and you live forever. — Abbey Lincoln

Birthplace of Obama: Oahu. Birthplace of Obama's budget policies: Neverland. — Steve Breen

I am a sadistic pig, a pervert and a rapist. - Lisbeth Salander, Millennium — Stieg Larsson

Tobacco surely was designed
To poison, and destroy mankind. — Philip Freneau

I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out. — Walter Isaacson

When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly. — Sherry Argov