Rosaleen Blair Quotes & Sayings

How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself? — Anne Frank

Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply. — Amit Chaudhuri

I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do. — Ira Glass

We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged. ~Colonel Henry Knox — David McCullough

I'm just someone who observes a lot. — Nadine Labaki

Everyone lives through this difficult period. For the average person it's the point in his life when the demands of his own life clash most violently with the world around him, when his forward path must be fought for most bitterly. Many experience this death and rebirth, which are our destiny, only this once in their life, when childhood decays and slowly disintegrates, when all that has become dear to us is about to leave us and we suddenly feel the solitude and deathly chill of outer space around us. And very many are hung up for good on this reef and for the rest of their life cling painfully to the irretrievable past, to the dream of the lost paradise, which is the worst and most murderous of all dreams. — Hermann Hesse

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing ... — Robert A. Heinlein

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. — Pete Seeger

[American football] fanbase resemble that of contemporary boxing: rich people watching poor people play a game they would never play themselves. — Chuck Klosterman

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again. — Gloria Swanson

I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race. — Kenny Smith

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character. — Woodrow Wilson

In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists [sic], one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails. — Margaret Sanger

In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. Propaganda precedes technology. — Sam Keen