Sisyphuss Quotes & Sayings

The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them? — Alain De Botton

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. — Bob Newhart

I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you. — Lleyton Hewitt

They were so ... larger than life, these Yanks, with their ready smiles and booming voices. And their gratitude ... She'd lost track of the times an American had hugged her so tightly she'd come off her feet. — Kristin Hannah

Every little trifle for some reason does seem incalculably important today and when you say of a thing that "nothing hangs on it" it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing - how am I to put it? - which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it forever. — E. M. Forster

While it's typical to find steamed clam recipes which include a bit of bacon or sausage, you might not think of adding shredded ham hock, but it's another way to pair the lusty, smoky flavor of animal fat with the briny ocean flavor of shellfish. — Tom Douglas

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. — Woodrow Wilson

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry. — J.K. Rowling