Smietanski Alan Quotes & Sayings

At college, and perhaps for a year afterwards, they had believed in literature, had believed in Beauty and in personal expression as an absolute end. When they lost this belief, they lost everything. — Nathanael West

Either way, I have no wish to disturb a man sleeping in a gutter; I assume until proved otherwise that he belongs there. — Robert A. Heinlein

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea... cruising, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about. — Christopher Combe

If you choose the latter, understand that you may be giving up the man and life God intended for — Nikita Lynnette Nichols

Heart weeps.
Head tries to help heart.
Head tells heart how it is, again:
You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday.
Heart feels better, then.
But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart.
Heart is so new to this.
I want them back, says heart.
Head is all heart has.
Help, head. Help heart. — Lydia Davis

Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you. — Yann Martel

Historians and scholars have access to every issue of every newspaper and journal written during the civil rights struggle of the 1960s but can access only a comparative handful of papers covering the election of Barack Obama. — Jeffrey Zeldman

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle. — Fannie Flagg

The kitchen was a science experiment gone terribly wrong - entire — Ransom Riggs

Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump. — Vic Toews

How much do you value life?" "Sixty-four. — Richard Feynman

Knowing how to see, that is the most important gift from God. — Karen Harper

I wouldn't be the best offensive player if I didn't have a great setter. She serves me up nectar. — Misty May-Treanor

Holy fear is to shun evil. — Lailah Gifty Akita