Sellwood Pool Quotes & Sayings

I knew in that moment that things would be forever different- that today was gong to be the day that split my life into before and after. — Morgan Matson

I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of the present, part of the gray cold and the beggar woman without a face and the moulting birds frozen to their own filth in the Orangerie. I know now I was in the throes of some small glandular crisis, a sublimated bilious attack, a flick from the whip of melancholia, but then it was terrifying ... nameless ... — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

Friends are flowers in life's garden. — Okakura Kakuzo

The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation. — Ron Wyden

If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are. — Frederick Buechner

The Count was clearly a fair-minded man. Anyone who didn't think so deserved to die. — Terry Pratchett

Ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you — Jack Kerouac

Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life. — Debasish Mridha

At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket with a startled glance, like a prudish but not innocent woman concealing bodily charms which in her excessive modesty she sees as wanton. — Marcel Proust

I was born 'neath a clouded star. — Julia Ward Howe

I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinions you have been in the habit of hearing. It is impossible that your own observation can have given you much knowledge of the clergy. You can have been personally acquainted with very few of a set of men you condemn so conclusively. — Jane Austen

I know I might rub people the wrong way sometimes, but I'm just a kid living my dream ... I'm enjoying my life. — Conor McGregor

I just peed and forgot to take off my underwear. — Chelsea Handler

Does anybody have, a cold beer for Steve Austin?!??!!? — Stone Cold Steve Austin

In my family, we don't die till we're 100 years old. — Gunnar Myrdal