Schoepflin Katalog Quotes & Sayings

People are born and married, and live and die, in the midst of an uproar so frantic that you would think they would go mad of it. — William Dean Howells

Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart! — Henry Ward Beecher

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. — Ann Beattie

As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade. — Jerry Saltz

The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast. — Marcel Dionne

So how are we getting over to that?" Lyssa asked from where she was sitting on a cement embankment. Eric glanced across the waterline and nodded to the south. "There's a marina. We'll steal a boat." "Commandeer." "Excuse me?" "I'm a police officer, I don't steal boats," she told him simply. "I commandeer them." Eric snorted but nodded as he gestured. "Whatever you say, Officer. — Evan Currie

Somehow the fact of enormous privilege and freedom carries with it a sense of impotence, which is a strange, but striking, phenomenon. The fact is, we can do just about anything. There is no difficulty, wherever you are, in finding groups that are working hard on things that concern you. — Noam Chomsky

Work out to work up. — Toni Sorenson

Rudeness is like land mines you set for yourself. — Dani Kollin