Spindlers Ptown Quotes & Sayings

Connie went slowly home to Wragby. 'Home!'...it was a warm word to use for that great, weary warren. But then it was a word that had had its day. It was somehow cancelled. All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now, and dying from day to day. Home was a place you lived in, love was a thing you didn't fool yourself about, joy was a word you applied to a good Charleston, happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people, a father was an individual who enjoyed his own existence, a husband was a man you lived with and kept going in spirits. As for sex, the last of the great words, it was just a cocktail term for an excitement that bucked you up for a while, then left you more raggy than ever. Frayed! It was as if the very material you were made of was cheap stuff, and was fraying out to nothing. — D.H. Lawrence

'You know what I thought the first time I saw you?'
'No.'
'Point of no return.' — Josh Lanyon

Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls. — David Jeremiah

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door? — Pearl Bailey

Since boyhood, the sandy coast of Southern California with its mazes of rocky crags towering high above the Pacific had been Gower Champion's refuge for reflection. — John Anthony Gilvey

When it comes to words Mamma says, If they are not good, then maybe they should not be said. — Annette Bridges

When I first started [taking acting classes] I sort of stuck my toes in but I was so nervous I didn't know if I could go all the way. I was so scared about it for some reason. The more confident I got with it, the more I just fell in love with it. I love going to work every day and trying to make the most of the stuff I've been given. — Josh Duhamel

Alera is not a possession. — Cayla Kluver

There is good science you can do in space. There is stuff there you cannot do on Earth and we can gain understanding from it. — Helen Sharman

Don't wait until you're faced with someone's absence to acknowledge the importance of their presence. Love them now. Realize that the flaws, irritations, bad habits, and imperfections are all a part of what makes them, and you, unique, special, and rare to this universe. — Mandy Hale

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation. — Michael Moriarty

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them. — Judith Jamison

My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves — Christopher Poindexter

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being. — Brian Swimme