Purpling Leaves Quotes & Sayings

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief.
"And you so intelligent!"
"Excuse me?" said tom
"Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it."
"How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option — Stephen Fry

The landscape, like Los Angeles itself, is transitional. Impermanence haunts the city, with its mushroom industries
the aircraft perpetually becoming obsolete, the oil which must one day be exhausted, the movies which fill America's theatres for six months and are forgotten. Many of its houses
especially the grander ones
have a curiously disturbing atmosphere, a kind of psychological dankness which smells of anxiety, overdrafts, uneasy lust, whisky, divorce and lies. — Christopher Isherwood

Only a fool would be fighting them, my queen, and though I am a fool, I'm not that foolish. (Lutian) — Kinley MacGregor

One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic. — Michael Pollan

If we constantly rewrite history to fit how we see things now, we forget how things used to be and, equally important to future scholars, how we used to see them. — Anne Summers

As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created. — Ian Gardner

I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to. — Matt Damon

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. — Samuel Butler

The colder the weather, the bigger the gun
Got to rock a lot of clothes if you tryina hide one
In June it's .22's, February it's fifths
But all year round, it's 616. — Willie The Kid

Nobody used the minute hand. And Southerners were suspicious of Yankees who did. — D.D. Scott

The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation. — John A. Hobson

If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning. — Immanuel Kant

With all the conceptual truths in the universe at His disposal [Jesus] did not give them something to think about together when He was gone. Instead, He gave them concrete things to do - specific ways of being together in their bodies - that would go on teaching them what they needed to know when He was no longer around to teach them Himself ... "Do this" He said - not believe this but do this - "in remembrance of me. — Barbara Brown Taylor

It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good. — Melody Beattie

Weakness shown is worse than weakness felt. — Peter V. Brett