Samways Floor Quotes & Sayings

As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this, I emphasize again, not for one particular state, but within the frame work of International Jewry. — Nahum Goldmann

You bring to a painting your own experience. — Jacob Lawrence

I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me. — John Darnielle

But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it's been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded - that's how I feel about her. She wasn't there very long, but when she left, everything around her memory sort of dimmed. — Laura Miller

Adrian," she interrupted. "Didn't you just say I'm brilliant and always know everything? Then trust me on this."
"Always," I said, letting her pull me back down to her. "Always. — Richelle Mead

The artist must know how far to go too far. — Jean Cocteau

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics. — Pope Francis

Men don't get cellulite. God might just be a man. — Rita Rudner

If your feet are in two buckets and the average temperature of the water is 90 degrees, you're probably fine - unless one bucket is at 35 and the other is at 145 degrees. On average, you're fine. Based on variation, though, you're miserable. — Seth Godin

Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings. — Albert Schweitzer

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices
and to make sure that somebody notices. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You're not supposed to smile at me like I'm a little kitten that stupidly thinks it's a jungle cat. — Suzanne Wright

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do. — Hannah Whitall Smith

Or I would be the rain itself, wreathing over the island, mingling in the quiet of moist places, filling its pores with its saturated breaths. And I would be the wind, whispering through the tangled woods, running airy fingers over the island's face, tingling in the chill of concealed places, sighing secrets in the dawn. And I would be the light, flinging over the island, covering it with flash and shadow, shining on rocks and pools, softening to a touch in the glow of dusk. If I were the rain and wind and light, I would encircle the island like the sky surrounding earth, flood through it like a heart driven pulse, shine from inside it like a star in flames, burn away to blackness in the closed eyes of its night. There are so many ways I could love this island, if I were the rain. — Richard Nelson

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it. — Charlie Kaufman