Rooneys Oceanfront Quotes & Sayings

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism. — Abraham Lincoln

Once I really looked at the sky, I wanted to go on looking; it seemed to draw me towards it and make me listen hard, though there was nothing to listen to, not so much as a twig was stirring. — Dodie Smith

[T]hat question is like asking what color Tuesday was. It's meaningless. — James S.A. Corey

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. — Maya Angelou

We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat. — Alan W. Watts

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long. — Robert Jordan

The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables. — Joel Fuhrman

This music ebbs and flows, irregular, sad. It reminds me, weirdly, of watching the ocean during a bad storm, the lashing, crashing waves and the spray of sea foam against the docks; the way it takes your breath away, the power and the hugeness of it.
That's exactly what happens as I listen to the music, as I come up over the final crest of hill, and the half-ruined barn and collapsing farmhouse fan out in front of me, just as the music swells, a wave about to break: The breath leaves my body all at once, and I'm struck dumb by the beauty of it. For a second it seems to me like I really am looking down at the ocean - a sea of people, writhing and dancing in the light spilling down from the barn like shadows twisting up around a flame. — Lauren Oliver

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. — Walter Savage Landor

I think that the cultural dominance of narrative forms that seduce you with character and plot perhaps at the expense of ideas, like The Magic Mountain [won't last]. Starvation sharpens the appetite. — David Mitchell

I'm the luckiest guy in the world, and I am going to give away every penny before I die. — William E. Conway Jr.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. — David Berlinski

There are level-headed actors and outlandish actors and financially responsible actors and financially irresponsible actors. — Rob McClure

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it. — George Bernard Shaw

Don't live life like it's another day, but live life like it's your last day. — Anthony Liccione