Powerful Butane Quotes & Sayings

Boredom: the desire for desires. — Leo Tolstoy

They had always told me that I wrote like a man. — Ama Ata Aidoo

She watched the glass, a plain woman, changing all to the delightful illusion of beauty. There was still time: for her ugliness was destined to bloom late, hidden first by the unformed gawkiness of youth, budding to plainness in young womanhood and now flowering to slow maturity in her early forties, it still awaited the subtle garishness which only decay could bring to fruition: a garishness which, when arrived at, would preclude all efforts at the mirror game. — Brian Moore

Be very suspicious of anyone who does not have books at home or in the office, or who stammers when you ask them about the last thing they read. — Shelly Branch

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path. — Tony Hale

We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

He claimed to be a Marxist, the only one of his claims I believed. He had that Marxist passion for oysters and good Sancerre, and that Marxist paralysis when the waiter brought the check. Already it's obvious how much the Communists got wrong, overbetting on human high-mindedness, lowballing human desire. — Francine Prose

When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional. — Hunter S. Thompson

I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level. — Steven Soderbergh

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. — Milton Friedman