Stachowicz Chicago Quotes & Sayings

Democratic government needs parties; parties do not need democracy. — Jacob T. Levy

It's history. It's poetry. — J.D. Salinger

I know. I know I've been a jerk, and I don't have a good excuse. But touching you and loving you, and knowing you were planning to leave me, made me crazy. After we made love the second time, I began to think maybe you'd decide to stay with me. I started to think about you and me waking up every day together for the rest of our lives. I even thought about kids and taking some of those breathing classes when you got pregnant. Maybe buying one of those mini-vans. — Rachel Gibson

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too. — Annie Lennox

Ah, you may sit under them, yes. They cast a good shadow, cold as well-water; but that's the trouble, they tempt you to sleep. And you must never, for any reason, sleep beneath a cypress.' He paused, stroked his moustache, waited for me to ask why, and then went on: 'Why? Why? Because if you did you would be changed when you woke. Yes, the black cypresses, they are dangerous. While you sleep, their roots grow into your brains and steal them, and when you wake up you are mad, head as empty as a whistle.' I asked whether it was only the cypress that could do that or did it apply to other trees. 'No, only the cypress,' said the old man, peering up fiercely at the trees above me as though to see whether they were listening; 'only the cypress is the thief of intelligence. So be warned, little lord, and don't sleep here. — Gerald Durrell

The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure. — Dale Rex Coman

So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation. — Curt Schilling

Anyone who can not write should. — Harlan Ellison

If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be. — Warren Spector

The Age of Adaline was very special because it marks for me the first male lead on a proper Hollywood production. — Michiel Huisman

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice. — Sasha Grey

Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few miles away on the island. The logical, rational answer was obvious.
"Which is why the world stays messed up," Caine said under his breath. "People aren't rational."
He took a few deep, steadying breaths, and prepared to die for power. — Michael Grant

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair. — Andrew Motion

He'd surely been spawned by some cataclysmic event of nature, not born. — Karen Marie Moning

He had the ease of an expert, so confident that it seemed casual, but it was the ease of a tremendous concentration, the concentration on one's task that has the ruthlessness of an absolute. — Ayn Rand