Standiford Place Quotes & Sayings

Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you. — Sally Brampton

You will return to Lord Gyles and inform him that he does not have my leave to die. — George R R Martin

I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up! — Bryce Dallas Howard

The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by mass media notoriously phony. — Paul Goodman

You have sent me a Flanders mare. — Henry VIII Of England

I call them associates; I don't like the word 'employee.' — Mickey Drexler

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality. — Clarence Darrow

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me. — Alicia Keys

That's not writing, that's typing. — Truman Capote

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
Cyril Connolly (English critic and editor, 1903-1974) — Cyril Connolly

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature. — Henry David Thoreau

I always look forward to seeing a man who has more brains than me. — Salma Hayek

Life is a terrible thing, thank God. — Dylan Thomas