Sidelights Window Quotes & Sayings

How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone. — Richard Llewellyn

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely. — Mo Willems

I have not made any plans for the future, and my wife would kill me if I announced anything before that. — Scott Walker

Well ... " He leans across the basket to place the necklace over my head. It falls in line atop my key. He drags my hair free, smoothing the strands to cover both chains. "I thought this could be symbolic. It's made of the same kind of metal, looks vintage like the key. Together, they prove what I've always known. Even when we used to come here as kids." "And what's that?" I watch him, intrigued by how the tunnel's opening tints one side of his smooth complexion with bluish light. "That only you have the key to open my heart. — A.G. Howard

Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience. — Robert Blake

He no longer clung to the simplistic ideals of right and wrong or good and evil. He understood better than anyone that dark and light were intertwined in strange and complex ways. — Drew Karpyshyn

Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities. — Frederick Sommer

We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour. — Henry Parry Liddon

I struck down his evil no matter what name it took for itself, no matter that it called itself history or revolution, America or the son of God, no matter that it called itself righteous, a righteousness that presumed the license to bind the free word and thought, that presumed the wisdom to timetable the birth of a soul, that presumed the morality that offers its children up to the plague rather than teach them the language of love. A thousand righteous champions calcified into something venal and mean by their presumptions of something sacred and pure and undirtied by the blood and spit and semen of being human: I recognized all of them by the bit of him they carried, sometimes in one eye, sometimes under their nails. — Steve Erickson

I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios. — Steve Antin

His manner showed a curious mixture of longing and enthusiasm, which is to say that his enthusiasms were always of a wistful sort, and his longings, always enthusiastic. He was delighted by things of an improbable or impractical nature, which he sought out with the open-hearted gladness of a child at play. When he spoke, he did so originally, and with an idealistic agony that was enough to make all but the most rigid of his critics smile; when he was silent, one had the sense, watching him, that his imagination was nevertheless usefully occupied, for he often sighed, or nodded, as though in agreement with an interlocutor whom no one else could see. — Eleanor Catton

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. — C.S. Lewis