Schraffts Building Quotes & Sayings

There is a finely translated epigram in the greek anthology which admirably expresses this state of mind, this acceptance of loss as unatoned for, even tho the lost element might be one's self: 'A shipwrecked sailor, buried on this coast, bids you set sail. Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost, weathered the gal. — William James

I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy. — W.N.P. Barbellion

Outside the airport, the caravan waited. Four silver Airstream trailers, three trucks, two parking violations and Aunt Dot. Stepping into the parking lot felt like coming home. — Hailey Edwards

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out. — Henry Ward Beecher

I guess the truth is nobody told this smart kid that communication between such divergent life forms was impossible, so he just went ahead and did it anyhow. — Terry Pratchett

With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves. — Ozzy Osbourne

In this great stretch of country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life. There is no bird in the steel-blue heaven, no movement upon the dull, grey earth - above all, there is absolute silence. Listen as one may, there is no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness; nothing but silence - complete and heart-subduing silence. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world. — Mike Young

You can't possibly be afraid of death, really, you can only be afraid of life. — Carl R. Rogers

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts. — Maud Adams