Ronquille Plantation Quotes & Sayings

The pain I imagine is worse than the actual pain. — Haruki Murakami

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. — Benjamin Disraeli

But what are facts, really, except things we've already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof. — Kathryn Reiss

The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means. — Kimbra

The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it. — Sammy Davis Jr.

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer. — Denis Lavant

Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy. — J. Christopher Herold

You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places. — Yvon Chouinard

NIGHT. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes. — Elie Wiesel

It's a hell of a thing; killin' a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have. — Clint Eastwood

English civilization the humanizing, the bringing into one harmonious and truly humane life, of the whole body of English society that is what interests me. — Matthew Arnold

I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you. — Andy Richter

We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular. There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. After all we have been through, just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating. — Jesse Jackson