Purls Yarn Quotes & Sayings

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I left the show, the fans were so amazing in terms of the outpouring of support and continued support all that time whatever ways they could be in touch with me. — Alice Barrett

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face. — Juvenal

Peter became very clever at helping the birds to build their nests; soon he could build better than a wood-pigeon, and nearly as well as a blackbird, though never did he satisfy the finches, and he made nice little water-troughs near the nests and dug up worms for the young ones with his fingers. He also became very learned in bird-lore, and knew an east wind from a west wind by its smell, and he could see the grass growing and hear the insects walking about inside the tree-trunks. — J.M. Barrie

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. — Ellen Glasgow

Human courage is an opiate but opiates are human too. If God is an opiate so am I. Therefore eat me. Eat the night, — Jack Kerouac

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over. — Martha Plimpton

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder. — Ho Chi Minh

The most important thing when you're working with greatness is to learn from it, not challenge it. — Jeremy Brett

The art of leadership ... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention ... The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category. — Adolf Hitler

I say a vote for the Democrats or Republicans is the ONLY wasted vote ... By buying into the rhetoric that there are only two parties worth voting for ... you increase their power. And with it, you promote the watered-down freedoms and endless government growth that these two parties consisently vote for. — Carla Howell