Stimmilent Quotes & Sayings

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate. — Louis Menand

The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent. — Beryl Markham

To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. — Ayn Rand

I long to drift through turquoise skies;
race the wind in rampant flight.
Ruddy chains have framed my eyes,
they seize my heart and stain the light. — Craig Froman

We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma. — Randall Terry

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence. — Herbert Hoover

Get Mom to stop hanging bras on bedroom doorknob — Meg Cabot

But if monsters could look like humans, and humans could look like monsters, how could anyone ever really be sure that the right people stood on the outside of all those cages? — Rachel Vincent

I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not ... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly. — Satyajit Ray

If two New Hampshiremen aren't a match for the devil, we might as well give the country back to the Indians. — Stephen Vincent Benet

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation. — Jane Gardam

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good. — Michael Fish

The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union. — Masha Gessen

Living in the present is the way to go. — Renee Marino

Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy
and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent. — Thomas Hardy