Stolne Lampe Quotes & Sayings

Laws are the terms by which independent and isolated men united to form a society, once they tired of living in a perpetual state of war where the enjoyment of liberty was rendered useless by the uncertainty of its preservation. They sacrificed a portion of this liberty so that they could enjoy the remainder in security and peace. — Cesare Beccaria

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked. — P. J. O'Rourke

Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people. — Joe Greene

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back. — Patti LaBelle

Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time. — John Green

Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself. — Robin Sharma

San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular dreams to be fulfilled
or would we have preferred others? Did we know what price these dreams would exact? Did we anticipate the ways in which, vivid and continuous, they would unsuit us for the business of daily life? Or should our notion of daily life itself be transformed? — Edmund White