Strahov Dormitory Quotes & Sayings

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten. — Thomas Hardy

Broccoli spaceship. Broccoli SPACESHIP! — Gina Damico

God brings his grace into the heart by conquest. — William Gurnall

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. — Robert Fripp

In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you ... — Christopher Earle

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions. — Hillary Clinton

My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out smoke. Like a volcano. Like a monster. I want to fume. I do not want to be the girl whose job it is to wail in a high-pitched voice at funerals. — Deborah Levy

We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines. — Ban Ki-moon

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back. — Wanda Sykes

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision. — Brenda Ueland

Die young, stay pretty. Blondie, right? We think of it as a modern phenomenon, the whole youth thing, but really, consider all those great portraits, some of them centuries old. Those goddesses of Botticelli and Rubens, Goya's Maja, Madame X. Consider Manet's Olympia, which shocked at the time, he having painted his mistress with the same voluptuous adulation generally reserved for the aristocratic good girls who posed for depictions of goddesses. Hardly anyone knows anymore, and no one cares, that Olympia was Manet's whore; although there's every reason to imagine that, in life, she was foolish and vulgar and not entirely hygienic (Paris in the 1860s being what it was). She's immortal now, she's a great historic beauty, having been scrubbed clean by the attention of a great artist. And okay, we can't help but notice that Manet did not choose to paint her twenty years later, when time had started doing its work. The world has always worshipped nascence. Goddamn the world. — Michael Cunningham