Sonia Showalter Quotes & Sayings

You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core. — Kevin Brockmeier

The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII ... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period ... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near. — Alfred De Musset

I never followed fashion. It's women who have dictated my conduct. — Azzedine Alaia

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental - far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. — Franz Grillparzer

But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand. — Philip K. Dick

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had. — Robin Cousins

Actually the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of a Adventures. — Lewis Carroll

For some reason, the two of us arguing was like some sick form of foreplay. — Christina Lauren

The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people. — Nicola Sturgeon

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Inheritance is the idea that one class is a specialization of another class. The purpose of inheritance is to create simpler code by defining a base class that specifies common elements of two or more derived classes. The common elements can be routine interfaces, implementations, data members, or data types. Inheritance helps avoid the need to repeat code and data in multiple locations by centralizing it within a base class. When you decide to use inheritance, you have to make several decisions: For each member routine, will the routine be visible to derived classes? Will it have a default implementation? Will the default implementation be overridable? For each data member (including variables, named constants, enumerations, and so on), will the data member be visible to derived classes? — Steve McConnell

Somewhere inside me, a madman raged in his cell, but I chose not to know of that. — Robin Hobb

When the man you love asks you to go with him - you go. — C.J. Roberts

In all my years on earth, I have seen time and time again that those who are the happiest are those who have the courage to follow their hearts - to believe what otherwise would be unbelievable; to seek the light; to find the truth. — Michael McLean

The law, instead of cleansing the heart from sin, doth revive it, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue. — John Bunyan