Szopinski The Wall Quotes & Sayings

When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it. — Tea Obreht

Jerusalem above is a city whose builder and maker is God. Every grace, yea, every degree of grace, is a stone in that building, the topstone whereof is laid in glory, where saints shall more plainly see, how God was not only Founder to begin, but Benefactor also to finish the same. The glory of the work shall not be crumbled and piece-mealed out, some to God and some to the creature, but all entirely paid in to God, and he acknowledged all in all. — William Gurnall

CARDINAL PANDULPH You hold too heinous a respect of grief. CONSTANCE He talks to me that never had a son. — William Shakespeare

The theory of evolution explains to us what our ancestry has been. It does not explain away our worth. Why should we be afraid to learn more about what we are? — Philip Kitcher

I decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end. — T. S. Eliot

So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies. — Leif Enger

This is trash state U.S.A. — Tim Dorsey

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack? — Arabella Weir

Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

What still runs through your mind at moments like these, even all these years into your China time, is "how can I possibly explain this to the folks back home?" Here's the other thing that you have to explain to them: things like this keep happening. — Jonathan Campbell

A girl that's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned. — L.A. Meyer

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself. — William Safire

Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's. — John McWhorter

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. — Walt Disney