Quixotes Bar Quotes & Sayings

Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin. — Barbara Kingsolver

I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us. — Penelope Lively

In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a large jar of these insects, and made every teacher take one and hold it while I was speaking. If any one dropped the insect, I stopped till he picked it up. This was at that time a great innovation, and excited much laughter and derision. There can be no true progress in the teaching of natural science until such methods become general. — Louis Agassiz

I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable. — Max Irons

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News. — Mike Wallace

As a way of getting in touch with my origins
every night I set the alarm clock
for the time I was born so that waking up
becomes a historical reenactment and the first thing I do — David Berman

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior. — Ba Jin