Rogallo Quotes & Sayings

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state. — Jill Lepore

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. — James Baldwin

Maybe to his nemesis, the world was a stage, reality was a fraud, and all was artifice. How — Dean Koontz

Oh, come on Em." He stopped walking and looked me in the eyes. His own were dark and shiny. "You know how I feel about you," he muttered.
"I do?"
He stepped closer and whispered, "When you're around, music plays in my head."
My eyes welled. "Music," I repeated softly.
"Well, you know." He grinned. "It's the Jaws theme. Da dum. Da dum. — Jennifer Jabaley

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are. — William John Wills

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low. — Tracey Emin

Wow, Caitlin's dating. Caitlin's going to the movies with a boy, where it's dark." Max shook his head and patted me on the shoulder. "You know what they say, man. With boys, parents only worry about one penis, but with girls, they worry about them all."

My lungs backed up and for a minute, my vision got hazy. Giving in, I bent at the waist and breathed air in nice and slow. Jesus Christ. "Thanks, Max, that's really helpful. — Kristen Kehoe

The cabin in the woods is to the American Gothic what the haunted castle is to the European - the seed from which everything else ultimately grows. — Bernice M Murphy Dr

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful. — Theodore Roosevelt