Springen Quotes & Sayings

You never know what is waiting for you around the corner. You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon. — P.G. Wodehouse

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,
fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other. — Henry David Thoreau

On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar. — J.K. Rowling

Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain.
Suffering does not necessarily imply love, but love implies suffering — Andrew Solomon

If you have too much to do, with God's help you will find time to do it all. — Peter Canisius

THAT'S THE POINT, SHERLOCK!', — John Green

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. — Peter Shaffer

Death is Nature's remedy for all things, — Charles Dickens

In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful. — Timothy Keller

What is the use of composing if it is to confine the product within the precinct of the concert or the solitude of listening to the radio? To compose, at least by propensity, is to give to do, not to give to hear but to give to write. The modern location for music is not the concert hall, but the stage on which the musicians pass, in what is often a dazzling display, from one source of sound to another. It is we who are playing, though still it is true by proxy; but one can imagine the concert - later on? - as exclusively a workshop, from which nothing spills over - no dream, no imaginary, no short, no 'soul' and where all the musical art is absorbed in a praxis with no remainder. — Roland Barthes

I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader. — Dave Barry