Tomhannock Reservoir Quotes & Sayings

But when he sat down for a moment on the bed, all the comedy of it was snatched away and torn to pieces. He was wrong about the woman's expression: he was trying to transform it into something he could bear. The truth was probably far different. He had started out to see what had happened with her eyes and had ended by substituting his own, thus contriving to put her on his side. — Saul Bellow

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded. — John McCain

Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see? — John Heywood

The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude. — Charlotte Beers

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. — Shelby Foote

When I say the things that don't make sense you answer me anyway. It's like having green in your shirt. — Mindy McGinnis

So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in. — George Gamow

I'm so glad to hear you are a reader, and you found these books to help you work through things on your own. — Paula Gruben

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him - that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic, dramatic terrorist attack. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

It is possible too that I was experiencing something known as "anticipatory grief," the mourning that occurs before a certain loss. Anticipatory. Expectatory. Trepidatory. This grief had a dampness. It did not drench or drown me, but it hung in the air like a pallid cloud, thinning but never entirely vanishing. It followed me wherever I went and gradually I grew used to looking at the world through it. — Kyo Maclear

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. — Grace Paley