Rahall Closing Quotes & Sayings

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. — Paul Scofield

Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. — Ayn Rand

Lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring ... — Sue Hubbell

For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood
through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her. — Gerda Lerner

Sometimes when all hell's breaking loose the only thing to do is to break more hell loose. — Karen Marie Moning

The smile he gives me is worth living for. — Nicola Yoon

Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight. — Anne Ursu

Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore. — Millard Kaufman