Seryozha Rachmaninoff Quotes & Sayings

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint. — Elsie De Wolfe

It felt like he'd been dragged through the nine circles of hell - by his testicles. — Kay Berrisford

Want to know when I first fell a little in love with you?"

"When I didn't faint from fright after meeting Secmis?" She'd come close, practically falling into Brishen's arms when they escaped the throne room.

"That was impressive. No cowering subject before her, but no." He tugged the blanket over her shoulder where it had fallen away. "It was when you ate the scarpatine and declared it tasted nothing like chicken."

She sniffed. "Then you're easily impressed. I don't think I fell in love with you just because you choked down a potato. Granted, you didn't have to engage it in battle before you ate it."

'You're hard to please."

She thumped his chest above his sternum. "I am not."

"Ouch." He rubbed the injured spot. — Grace Draven

Remember me at Winterlong. — Elizabeth Hand

Giv Herren sin Aere, giv Kongen sin Told. — Petter Dass

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost. — David R. Brower

No action in the present is an action planned with a view of its effect on the future. When the future, bearing its own events, arrives, its ancestry is then traced in a trancelike retrospect, at the end of which, their mouths and eyes wide with their astonishment, the people in a small place reveal themselves to be like children being shown the secrets of a magic trick. — Jamaica Kincaid

As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers; so there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. — James Madison

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I am not opposed to religion. Far from it. I'm for anything that gives people peace. That's why I am also for hot tubs and compact discs of whale songs. Anything that soothes the soul is fine by me. — Michael Ian Black

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Me and Frosted went to get a drink.
But she ordered somethin' bugged, and I ain't know what to think.
She ordered potassium, calcium,
Carbohydrate, scotch with sodium.
She took me to her crib, threw me on the couch ...
I woke up the next morning with a spoon in my mouth. — LL Cool J

Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank. — Eddie Cantor

The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage. — Ha-Joon Chang

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. — Kate Morton