Stahly Bloomington Quotes & Sayings

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward ... once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it. — Barbara Gittings

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship. — Edmund Wilson

I guess no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your past. — Joel Osteen

The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the big climates. — Terry Pratchett

I'm gonna get me a gun, all those people who put me down you better get ready to run. — Cat Stevens

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience. — Jerry Garcia

The only way out was to go back the next year and buy his sheep and pay over the odds to make up for it, so he did. Neither of these men cared remotely about "maximizing profit" in the short-term in the way a modern business person in a city would; they both valued their good names and their reputations for integrity far more highly than making a quick buck. If you said you would do a thing, you'd better do it. — James Rebanks

I never said I liked coffee better than sex. I said I'd had it more. — Kevin Sinnott

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid. — Doris Lessing

15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. — Anonymous

How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams. — David Weinberger

The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and self-contained so that the hours are no longer linear but assorted like bright sweets in a jar. — Penelope Lively