Rossettis Quotes & Sayings

How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass cage. It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar. There is a spark there. Next moment a flush of dun. Then a vapour as if earth were breathing in and out, once, twice, for the first time. Then under the dullness someone walks with a green light. Then off twists a white wraith. The woods throb blue and green, and gradually the fields drink in red, gold, brown. Suddenly a river snatches a blue light. The earth absorbs colour like a sponge slowly drinking water. It puts on weight; rounds itself; hangs pendent; settles and swings beneath our feet. — Virginia Woolf

You ever read Anton LaVey? — Ken Bruen

There's hundreds of corners on this island, Crystal said. And there are thousands of us. Exiles from the heartland without a heart. Out of the old country, a brand-new tribe, dancing to new tunes around a bucket of fire in a vacant lot. — Tom Spanbauer

Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years. — Tina Yothers

We're too great a nation to allow the evildoers to affect our soul. — George W. Bush

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are. — Garry Trudeau

I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society. — Andrea Gibson

Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil. — Toni Morrison

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Maybe she really likes guys who like hamburgers. — Nick Cole

MY TOUGHEST MATCH; is not on the mat. It's at the dinner table and it's at fast food restaurants. It's hearing about the party I can Never go to. It's realizing being a Great Wrestler isn't a sport, It's a LIFE. — Stephen Neal