Roena Comforter Quotes & Sayings

For the living, death is thievery. — Lionel Shriver

Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy. — Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut

Somewhere beyond the battening, urged sweep of three-bedroom houses rushing by their thousands across all the dark beige hills, somehow implicit in an arrogance or bite to the smog the more inland somnolence of San Narciso did lack, lurked the sea, the unimaginable Pacific, the one to which all surfers, beach pads, sewage disposal schemes, tourist incursions, sunned homosexuality, chartered fishing are irrelevant, the hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile; you could not hear or even smell this but it was there, something tidal began to reach feelers in past eyes and eardrums, perhaps to arouse fractions of brain current your most gossamer microelectrode is yet too gross for finding. — Thomas Pynchon

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. — Tom Jones

Perhaps the fact that I am not a Radical or a believer in the all powerful ballot for women to right her wrongs and that I do notscorn womanly duties, but claim it as a privilege to clean up and sort of supervise the room and sew things, etc., is winning me stronger allies than anything else. — Ellen Swallow Richards

It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know. — Jimi Hendrix

Pure practical reason, even with a good knowledge of the facts, will not take you to morality. — Kai Nielsen

For one short wet month early in the next year the drought lifted. Spring tipped in like green well water frothing at the hedges bubbling at the roadside splashing from the cottage roof in garlands of ivy and stringflower — Gregory Maguire

One of the attributes of love ... is to bring harmony and order out of chaos. — Molly Haskell

Beauty should be edible, or not at all. — Salvador Dali

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging. — Emma Bonino