Romanesca Greensleeves Quotes & Sayings

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. — Diogenes

A people always ends by resembling its shadow. — Rudyard Kipling

This was something he certainly had not done. I thought he might be toying, some cat-and-mouse routine, but now I think that his motives and desires weren't obvious even to him. They had not yet reached the level of words. — Margaret Atwood

Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness. — Yann Martel

I like to keep my private life private for the most part. — Bode Miller

Not the bee upon the blossom,
In the pride o' sunny noon;
Not the little sporting fairy,
All beneath the simmer moon;
Not the poet, in the moment
Fancy lightens in his e'e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi'es to me. — Robert Burns

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life. — Ben Gibbard

The clock over the mantel in the beau parlor at the Milbank House ticked — Adriana Trigiani

So turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favorite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them, because while I was working on this book, I believed in them myself. — Stephen King

When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin. — George Herbert

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it. — Roselyn Sanchez

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions. — Ken Robinson