Ryhans Quotes & Sayings

under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable. — Geraldine Brooks

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so' — Leo Tolstoy

The most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears. — Malcolm Forbes

McGahern still lives on and works a farm in Leitrim, and friends say that even though he has held high profile academic posts round the world as a visiting professor he remains essentially a countryman.

Last term he taught in an upstate New York college, but seeing him in the soulless urban grid of downtown Syracuse wearing an old tweed flat cap and long black overcoat, he could have been in an Irish agricultural town on market day as he casually engaged strangers on the street to ask for advice on finding a decent restaurant. Friends say he has extraordinary confidence in who he is and where he's from - he behaves pretty much the same way wherever is and whoever he is with. — John McGahern

I'm not big on the closet. — Dan Butler

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had. — Patti Smith

Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is provided with blood-curdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc. — Emma Goldman

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. — Peter De Vries

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. — Giacomo Casanova

I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in. — Ernie Colon

Broken doesn't mean we're valued any less, it just means we've loved someone so much and so fiercely that losing them feels like we've lost part of ourselves. — B.N. Toler

Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean. — Haruki Murakami