Semuren Quotes & Sayings

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty. — Mason Cooley

I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the New Year. — Marcel Proust

Doesn't matter," he said solemnly. "Men as a species are wrong. We're better off admitting it up front, taking our punishment and then hoping for good makeup sex. — Maya Banks

The comparison is perhaps a little bit unfair because a sonnet written by a machine will be better appreciated by another machine. — Walter Isaacson

With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things are clearer earlier. Being young meant flailing around a lot, especially as I was trying to invent new shapes without a ton of models. — Laura Mullen

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries; yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society. — Thomas Frank

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful. — Joe Dunthorne

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. — George Bernard Shaw

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories. — Buzz Aldrin

He's not just the best centre-forward in the British Isles, but the only one.
(about Ian St John) — Bill Shankly

Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like. — Peter Hook

Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there — Ezra Taft Benson