Vsurers Quotes & Sayings

you know, they visit no newcomers. Indeed you — Jane Austen

He couldn't look back at the children. He couldn't think of it. All he could do was watch the eyes of his wife.
He pulled her to him, her body soft, her skin warm. She was life, she was his. He took her lips and tasted his freedom once more. The subtle tenderness. The hope hidden in joined breath. He took it into himself. Soaking in the peace that came with it.
And even as the rustling began he felt still, he felt calm. Scratching and scrapping within the stones, and the rustle of wings. But all Eli knew was the nature of love. — Rachel A. Marks

A hundred bricks on your back are easier to carry than a single pebble on your soul. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox. — Terry Tempest Williams

Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done. — George Lucas

I'm not really saddened that [Pussy Riot] ended up in jail, though there is nothing good in that. What saddens me is that they took things to such a level, here, from my point of view, that they degraded the dignity of women. — Vladimir Putin

So are you lonely, or just a loner? — Charlie Lovett

God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison. — George Herbert

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world. — Theodore Sturgeon

The celebrity thing's completely crazy. I think I just have to move away or give it up altogether. I couldn't have kids in the situation I'm in now. But I could just do something else. That's probably what's going to happen. I made a decision very recently that I want a life instead. — Keira Knightley

In every house there ought to be an art table on which, one by one, things are placed, so that everybody in that house might look at the things very carefully, and see them.'
'What would you put on a table like that?'
'A leaf. A coin. A button. A stone. A small piece of torn newspaper. An apple. An egg. A pebble. A flower. A dead insect. A shoe.'
'Everybody's seen those things.'
'Of course. But nobody looks at them, and that's what art is. To look at familiar things as if they had never before been seen ... A necktie. A pocketknife ... a walnut. — William, Saroyan

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. — Jane Austen

It's not a problem to be great and do good things. — Anthony Hemingway

Every expert was once a beginner. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure. — Frances Burney

The life we have left behind us has a bad habit of stepping out of the shadows, of bringing complaints against us, of taking us to court. — Milan Kundera