Shaub Auctions Quotes & Sayings

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is. — Norman Cousins

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket. — Arthur Smith

The beauty of merism is that it's absolutely unnecessary. It's words for words' sake: a gushing torrent of invention filled with noun and noun and signifying nothing. Why a rhetorical figure that gabs on and on for no good reason should be central to the rite of marriage is beyond me. — Mark Forsyth

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. — Pamela Hansford Johnson

I suppose we're built with complete free will, and as much as we're capable of depravity, to the same degree we are wired for greatness. Everyone gets to choose, I think. And my challenge is to decide where I'll place the bulk of my attention. What I'll most believe in. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness. — Jonathan Alter

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well. — George Crook

Write to save yourself,' Athos said, 'and someday you'll write because you've been saved. — Anne Michaels

I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties. — Yelena Baturina

George Bowering doesn't play fair. Baseball Love is so good there is no memoir in the league that can go up against it. Bowering has a sense of story and an eye for detail that eliminate the possibility that he was a lousy second baseman. Reading a home run is fun. — Robert Kroetsch

Anton brings the camera. I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant. (On being photographed by his longtime photo collaborator Anton Corbijn) — Tom Waits

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid. — Richard Ford

In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off from things as they really are. — Colin Gunton

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black. — Charles Evers