Simonon Museum Quotes & Sayings

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years ... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one. — Thomas Naylor

Even the outright deletions that Ayn Rand's editor should have taken care of). — Anna Quindlen

The unwritten rule of engagement had been If it looks hostile, shoot it. — Rick Bragg

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Hen Maistre adopts Bossuet's bold idea that "the heretic is he who has personal
ideas" - in other words, ideas that have no reference to either a social or a religious tradition - he provides
the formula for the most ancient and the most modern of conformities. — Albert Camus

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as ... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt. — Ambrose Bierce

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. — Ray Charles

The Lord God must be greatly feared! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Telling a male lion not to be a lion wasn't exactly the easiest thing in the world. — Carrie Ann Ryan

In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins. — Jenna Black

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be. — Madeleine L'Engle

I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many. — Roger Federer

It was very still. The tree was tall and straggling. It had thrown its briers over a hawthorn-bush, and its long streamers trailed thick, right down to the grass, splashing the darkness everywhere with great spilt stars, pure white. In bosses of ivory and in large splashed stars the roses gleamed on the darkness of foliage and stems and grass. Paul and Miriam stood close together, silent, and watched. Point after point the steady roses shone out to them, seeming to kindle something in their souls. The dusk came like smoke around, and still did not put out the roses. — D.H. Lawrence

My work sells for £10,000-plus, but my most lucrative piece was a private project that was sold for more than six figures -dollars, that is. The process of the Lego can take weeks, months, or even days. Each one I deliver to specification to each gallery because they want them brought to them fully formed. — Nathan Sawaya

The strength of his will was the tool of his trade. — Gordon Lightfoot