Profaned Guardians Quotes & Sayings

These long-haired girls seemed to glide above all that was happening around them, tragic and separate. Like royalty in exile. I — Emma Cline

I have the impression that if the "armchair generals" arguers got their way and asked only war veterans what to do about Saddam Hussein, there would have been a rather abrupt "regime change" in Iraq long before now. — Christopher Hitchens

Where, My Lord, is music bred - upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man. — Karen Blixen

It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship — Manu Ginobili

What are they doing here, these difficult young persons and their still more difficult guardians? This - this sacred Elysian garden of the great humanistic tradition of classic wisdom and classic art - must not be invaded by clamorous babes and agitated elders, must not be profaned either by the plaudits or the strictures of the unlettered mob. Somewhere in human life, and where should it be if not in the cloistered seclusion of noble literature? - there must be an escape from the importunities of such people and from the responsibilities of the ignorance they so jealously guard. — John Cowper Powys

Trump said that he hoped bin Laden suffered a lot. It looks like he got his wish, because the CIA said bin Laden spent his last hour watching 'Celebrity Apprentice.' — Conan O'Brien