Pride And Prejudice Darcy Class Quotes & Sayings

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense. — Joanna Scott

No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California. — Janet Fitch

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. — Sophie Swetchine

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. — Lewis Mumford

A glorious life is a life live with gratitude. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them. — Max Fisher

Practice never makes you perfect, but it gets you closer to perfection. — Matshona Dhliwayo

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures ... — Sun Ra

If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is. — Diane Arbus