Schlafer Construction Quotes & Sayings

The quest of the alchemists to turn lead into gold is a metaphor for our attempts to turn the base metal of ourselves, that person hooked on consumerism, filled with angst and ambition, into the gold of what we can be and really are. — Chloe Thurlow

How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia. — Katherine Dunn

The Lord is like lightening. Startled by its appearance and momentarily blinded by the brightness of the flash, when the lightening strikes a person is either destroy or jolted to new life." Elias the Teacher — Daniel Molyneux

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking. — Nina Nastasia

Every so often I'll hear writers say that there are other writers they would read if for no other reason than to marvel at the skill with which they can put together the sort of sentences that move us to read closely, to disassemble and reassemble them, much the way a mechanic might learn about an engine by taking it apart. — Francine Prose

Just a woman honestly offering her heart and hoping that it will be taken by someone who'll cherish it — Robin Alexander

Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person. — Emily Post

Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war, — Kiera Cass

My daughter McKenna thought I sang with the Everly Brothers ... I said, 'no I was one of the Righteous Brothers' and she said 'didn't they invent the airplane?' — Bill Medley

Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you. — Shannon Love

If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg for his mercy without any deceit then the spiritual master bestows all auspiciousness upon us. — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati