Tairrie House Quotes & Sayings

Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along,
Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter
Chill as a dull face frowning on a song.
Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom
Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend
Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset
Rich, deep like love in beauty without end. — George Meredith

The dead are not separate from the living
each has one foot in the unknown
and cannot speak for the other — W.S. Merwin

Why'd you give him all that stuff after he tried to rob me?"
"Because he was less fortunate than us, Natty. And Daddy always said that we have to be mindful of those who are less fortunate."
"But Daddy killed people, didn't he?"
"Yes," I admitted. "Daddy was complex. — Gabrielle Zevin

Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude. — Jean Baudrillard

Great humorists are great insulters. — Dick Cavett

Nothing can shock me. — Sheri Moon Zombie

Reality is a creation of our excesses. — Emile M. Cioran

I couldn't do 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right. — Scott McKenzie