Schank And Associates Quotes & Sayings

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be. — J.B. Priestley

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you. — Tony Benn

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside — John F. Kennedy

The mere machinery of voting is not democracy, though at present it is not easy to effect any simpler democratic method. But — G.K. Chesterton

A micro-second before our mouths fully touched,when I could feel the heat of his skin,the barest brush of a lip,he glided his nose along my cheek.I gasped at the almost-contact.he exhaled heavily down my throat,an enticing noise escaping his lips,making me shudder.He stayed there,taking two ragged breaths,while I unconsciously melted even more against his body.My Knees turned even more into him,the hand on my lap dropped onto his thigh.I started to turn my head towards his mouth.He smelled so good ... — S.C. Stephens

Something good is a frontier; something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The grass isn't always greener on the other side! — Ricky Gervais

We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged. — Elizabeth Warren

One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking. — Charles S. Price

Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption. — Joseph Fiennes

Assiduity, it means sit down until you do it. Commit yourself to your work and study. — Lucas Remmerswaal

To be lost and forgotten-to be abandoned-is a shared and terrible fear, just as our fondest hope, as we grow older, is that we might leave some parts of us behind in the hearts of those we love and in that way live on. — Stewart O'Nan