Rasselas Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights? — Mervyn Peake

Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel. — Illinois Jacquet

I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either! — Lewis Carroll

A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. — Bill Clinton

I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I was doing involved corsets. I guess I am just not destined to breathe that deeply. — Kate Beckinsale

Nothing felt as right as pleasing a woman with his littermate beside him. As — Cherise Sinclair

Change your mindset to value curiosity, rather than thinking that you know it all. — Magnus Steele

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation. — Ben Mezrich

You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city. — Randee Heller

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection." — Kenneth Tynan

Build your cities proud and high. Lay your sewers. Span your rivers. Work feverishly. Sleep dreamlessly. Sing madly, like the bulbul. Underneath, below the deepest foundations, there lives another race of men. They are dark, sombre, passionate. They muscle into the bowels of the earth. They wait with a patience which is terrifying. They are the scavengers. They emerge when everything topples into dust. — Henry Miller

fear less,hope more;
whine less,breathe more;
talk less,say more;
hate less,love more;
den all good things wll b yours; — Swedish

Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that. — Marian Seldes