Saddestand Quotes & Sayings

Berkeley was a lookout and a hideout. — Greil Marcus

Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot. — Stefan Edberg

People used to always ask, and I would say I wanted to be an actress. When they would ask why, I would say because my mother has so much fun. — Jennifer Ehle

Without defenses, people have no way of finding meaning in their experiences, lose their capacity to remember, and have difficulty imagining reasonable futures. One — Neil Postman

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers. — Evelyn Waugh

Sense of Wonder ( ... ) may be defined as a shift in perspective so that the reader, having been made suddenly aware of the true scale of an event or venue, responds to the revelation with awe. — John Clute

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature. — Penelope Hobhouse

If I'm really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible. — John Corey Whaley

Hydromedusa tectifera are, like post-war Nazis, native to Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. — Mary Roach

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards. — Rasmus Lerdorf

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it. — Miguel De Cervantes

You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,
in winter expecting the sun of spring. — Henry David Thoreau

A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain ... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of. — Frances Bay

Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colored pins
sticking out of her heart.
She has many different zombies
who are deeply in her trance.
She even has a zombie
who was originally from France.
But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets
too close to her,
the pins stick farther in. — Tim Burton

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds,
but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Be outrageous ... rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through celebrating the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was! — Molly Ivins