Sarah Gruen Quotes & Sayings

He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last. — Horace

How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time. — W.G. Sebald

Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that's the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals. — Aleksandra Mir

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect. — Sara Gruen

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression. — Rube Goldberg

Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist
memory shrinks without forgetting — Fady Joudah

I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications. — Alberto Gonzales

Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamed - for a better life of equality for their grandchildren and future generations. As people rooted in their faith, they probably did a lot of praying here as well, that God would deliver us all to prosperity and peace beyond this plot of land. — Deborah L. Parker

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters. — Gerald Chertavian

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca The Younger

All I could think about as I stood there was that sometimes life gave you a tragedy that burned everything you knew to the ground and changed you completely. But somehow, if you really wanted to, you could learn how to hold your breath as you made your way through the smoke left in its wake and you could keep going. And sometimes, sometimes, you could grow something beautiful from the ashes that were left behind. If you were lucky. — Mariana Zapata

You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate. — Bill Watterson

Time softened on Sundays; it stretched itself out in vast rubbery lengths, and by two o'clock, there was more of it than would ever be needed for anything. There was no point in reading a book, writing a letter, or playing a game, because time was too flaccid ever to proceed to the moment in which the plot would twist, the letter would be sent, or the game would be won. — Annie Barrows

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me! — Rodney Dangerfield

Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.' — Robert Giroux

All changes have their melancholy — Amy Cuddy