Queued Gmail Quotes & Sayings

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament. — Josh Waitzkin

No, this was the kind of moment that made everything stop. You separated it from every other one, pressing the feeling to your heart, like a dried flower slipped between the pages of a beloved book. The moment was made of something fragile and delicate, yet it possessed the power to last forever. — Susan Wiggs

We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a character's pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with their own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. It might just be that simple. — David Foster Wallace

All small towns, scandal is always simmering on the back burner, like your Aunt Cindy's baked beans. — Stephen King

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections. — Tom Lehrer

Man in a word has no nature; what he has..is history. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

During the onset of the Industrial Revolution in Eastern Massachusetts, mid-nineteenth century, there happened to be a very lively press run by working people, young women in the factories, artisans in the mills, and so on. They had their own press that was very interesting, very widely read and had a lot of support. And they bitterly condemned the way the industrial system was taking away their freedom and liberty and imposing on them rigid hierarchical structures that they didn't want. One of their main complaints was what they called "the new spirit of the age: gain wealth forgetting all but self." For 150 years there have been massive efforts to try to impose "the new spirit of the age" on people. But it's so inhuman that there's a lot of resistance, and it continues. — Noam Chomsky

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge ... you can't hear him talk. — Steven Wright

People get so stressed and nervous and mad. — Kim Clijsters

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America. — Dan Aykroyd

For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born. — Alice Freeman Palmer

I know you don't understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward," he says. — Zoe Cruz

Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner. — Chad Smith

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock. — Ralph Waldo Emerson