Rubinsky House Quotes & Sayings

An only child is never twelve. — Enid Bagnold

She stood in profile across the green, her back straight, her stance that of some long ago warrior maiden. As he walked toward her, Miss Greaves drew back her bow briskly, aiming a tad high to account for the wind, and let her arrow fly. Before it had hit the target, she'd notched another and shot it. A third followed just as rapidly. He glanced to the target. All three of her arrows were clustered together at the center of the red circle. Miss Greaves, who "did not shoot," was a better shot than all the other ladies - and probably the men as well. He glanced from the target to her and saw that she stared back, proud and unsmiling. Artemis. She was named for the goddess of the hunt - a goddess who had slain without remorse her only admirer. — Elizabeth Hoyt

It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible. — Justin Sirois

Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered. — Tom Rath

He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision. — Michael Lewis

When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can. — D.H. Lawrence

Then he said the funny thing was the old man himself had left home when he was a kid, after a fight with his own father. The father lit into him for using the wheelbarrow.

"It was this way. They always carried the feed to the horses, pail by pail. In the winter, when the horses were in the stalls. So my father took the notion to carry it to them in the wheelbarrow. Naturally it was a lot quicker. But he got beat. For laziness. That was the way they were, you know. Any change of any kind was a bad thing. Efficiency was just laziness, to them. That's the peasant thinking for you. — Alice Munro

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back. — Roy Rogers

If you're one of the Disney kids, it's like you have to talk about having a promise ring, you know? — Nolan Gerard Funk

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility. — Everett Dirksen

What are you, tap dancing up there? You want a put on a show, do you? Well, the theater's closed for the night. Take your act on the road; it's four o'clock in the morning,goddamnit. — David Sedaris

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. — Richard Cobden

The sons of God are different because they are givers, just like their Heavenly father — Sunday Adelaja

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. — Markus Zusak