Sonnabend In English Quotes & Sayings

I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot. — Natalie Maines

As an artist, I've been very fortunate. — Enrique Iglesias

I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other. — Henry David Thoreau

I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air ... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead. — Harry Caray

Accusations are merely the envy of the unenlightened given form. — Brian Farrey

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Since there is no place large enough
to contain so much happiness,
you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you
into everything you touch. You are not responsible.
You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit
for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it,
and in that way, be known. — Naomi Shihab Nye

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more ... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working. — Betty Field

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes. — Mickey Rivers

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs,
Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things. — Theodore Roethke

I'm labeled a comedic actor, which is awesome. But I love getting the occasional dramatic role, too. Some of your best dramatic actors are ultimately comedians. — Jim O'Heir

Plans?" he snorted. "I'm ninety-three years old! Who in tarnation makes plans at my age? I could stop breathin' any minute now. — Linda Howard

But as truth and reason seldom find so favourable a reception in the world, and as the wisdom of Providence frequently condescends to use the passions of the human heart, and the general circumstances of mankind, as instruments to execute its purpose; we may still be permitted, though with becoming submission, to ask, not indeed what were the first, but what were the secondary causes of the rapid growth of the Christian church. It — Edward Gibbon