Skarphedinn Quotes & Sayings

Falling in love is a series of moments in which the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Those moments are not continuous, but the sense of union with another person is just about the best thing there is. — Caroline Kennedy

As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades - nature's framework of their picture - so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry, but which demand the colored air and the bowers of poetry to be the setting of their charms. — David Swing

Happiness will be abundant in your life when there is love, beauty, rhythm, and rhyme. — Debasish Mridha

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship. — Frederick Forsyth

I've never been good at following directions. All you have to do is look at my Ikea bureau with the crooked drawers to figure that one out. — Donna Augustine

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. — Ralph Ellison

Especially since I don't want that vinyl stuff outside. 'Oh,' he says, 'that vinyl siding makes a warm house, never has to be painted, you can buy it on time.' I said I wouldn't have it on my coffin." She — Annie Proulx

The Metropolitan Museum of Art claims to be the largest in the western hemisphere. It's right, but I'm not too sure about the arts bit. Don't misunderstand me. It's got tons of genuine art. It's also got tons of stuff that is hard to classify. I can't come to grips with a massive cube with a grandiose title. I allow that it's art, but not my sort. I need the big stone block to tell me something about the bloke whose name's on the caption, and it doesn't. That off my chest, I admit that any place with 3.3 million works of art truly is a wonder. — Jonathan Gash

Without literature my life would be miserable. — Naguib Mahfouz