Romanist House Quotes & Sayings

You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost! — David Bischoff

If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there? — Jaron Lanier

Ask me to cut off my right arm for you, and I'll do it. Ask me to lay down my life for you, and I'll do it. But Please don't ask me to give you up now that I've found you again. Don't ask that, Amy — Catherine Anderson

The start receives such disproportionate attention because it isn't deemed to be just one phase among many; for the Romantic, it contains in concentrated form everything significant about love as a whole. Which is why in so many love stories there is simply nothing else for the narrator to do with a couple after they have triumphed over a range of initial obstacles other than to consign them to an ill-defined contented future- or kill them off. What we typically call love is only the start of love. — Alain De Botton

She is an angel, how bad could it be?"
"Ask the first born of Israel when the Pharaoh pissed off Moses. Ask the salty residents of Sodom. Ask anyone who was not Noah or a fish once the Flood rolled in. — Thomm Quackenbush

If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight. — Jimmy Wales

Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

My grandfather went through a lot in his life. — Novak Djokovic

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various. — Irwin Shaw