Subaqueous Tunnel Quotes & Sayings

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea. — John Gimlette

Many a night that summer she left Dr. Archie's office with a desire to run and run about those quiet streets until she wore out her shoes, or wore out the streets themselves; when her chest ached and it seemed as if her heart were spreading all over the desert. When she went home, it was not to go to sleep. She used to drag her mattress beside her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window
or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that it was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation. It was on such nights that Thea Kronborg learned the thing that old Dumas meant when he told the Romanticists that to make a drama he needed but one passion and four walls. — Willa Cather

Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a thousand difficulties must be contemn'd with which a mean heart would be broken: many attempts must be made to no purpose: much Treasure must sometimes be scatter'd without any return: much violence, and vigour of thoughts must attend it: some irregularities, and excesses must be granted it, that would hardly be pardon'd by the severe Rules of Prudence. — Thomas Sprat

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake. — Kristin Cashore

Then Rosalind began popping into his mind again, and he found his lips forming her name over and over. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Let your spirit soar to heaven with it whenever you use it, like the bird who once bore it. — L.M. Montgomery

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube. — Joan Rivers

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago. — H.L. Mencken