Testbench Quotes & Sayings

Still waiting for them to make reversible diapers, maybe with teflon coating ... — Neil Leckman

Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning ... and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all. — Donald Hall

Music ... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. — Marita Golden

He runs City Hall like a small family business and keeps everybody on a short rein. They do only that which they know is safe and that which he tells them to do. So many things that should logically be solved several rungs below finally come to him. — Mike Royko

Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again - the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and all the days that we had spent here together. What was I going to do when such days came no more? There could not be many; for we were a family growing old. And how would I learn to live without these people? I who needed them so little that I could stay away all year - what should I do without them? — Jetta Carleton

A rose trapped inside a fist. — Henry Rollins