Roofscapes Nw Quotes & Sayings

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance. — Charles Lamb

I can hardly decide what plays I should be in. — Fiona Shaw

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man. — Nick Cave

There are times we got to trust the Lawd. Somehow — Kathleen Grissom

he does not report it, — Anonymous

The real safeguard of democracy is education. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Shakespeare's felicity is so often taught
it is easy to overlook how taut
the sinews in his neck must
have been when he grasped his pen, or the musk
that exuded from the fat of his chin
below a somewhat chthonic grin
life wrestled death on his desk when he composed. — B.J. Ward

Whoever can't laugh doesn't deserve to be taken seriously... — Thomas Bernhard

We are only what we do, not what we say we are. — Isadore Sharp

Kept stepping into the same mud puddle and expecting it to be dry. — Kristin Hannah

We all have to learn to live together. — William J. Clinton

It didn't seem like much of a priority, jogging around a field with a gun with so many other things going on. And now I'm paying for my negligence. — Suzanne Collins

Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between. — Mary E. Pearson