Preshernrarern Quotes & Sayings

Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes back to the days of Onassis and Niarchos competing with each other over who had the biggest fleet, the biggest yacht and the most famous girlfriend. — Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth. — Evangelista Torricelli

The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear. — George Downame

A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving. — Edmond Rostand

And I'll flip through the newest issue, walking back from my blue mailbox, hunting for the poem he chose over mine, and it'll be the same thing as always. The prose will have pulled back, and the poem will be there, cavorting, saying, I'm a poem, I'm a poem. No, you're not! You're an impostor, you're a toy train of pretend stanzas of chopped garbage. Just like my poem was. — Nicholson Baker

I have spent time in Mongolia, in China. — John Fusco