Rubenesque Art Quotes & Sayings

Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. — Warren Farrell

Young love-making
that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to
the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung
are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust. — George Eliot

I don't really care about having more fame than I have. — Jeff Bridges

He stood over her for as long as he could endure the cold, long enough for the boy tending the dead to pass twice on fingertips and toes. The boy's self-appointed mission was to keep all of their eyes closed, the dead. Otherwise he couldn't sleep, the boy. But he never did anyway, as far as the Agent could tell. Any hour, there he'd be, scuttling from body to body under his calf robe.

Many nights when the Agent locked his door, it wasn't to keep the Piegan from stealing his tins and blankets, but to keep the boy's hands from covering his own eyes. — Stephen Graham Jones

You understand why some animals eat their young. — John Paul Jones

Women of the world crave excitement. — Nicolas Chamfort

I'm merely pointing out that the gene that controls intelligence skipped a generation in the Van Holtz household. — Shelly Laurenston