Waterproofed Canvas Quotes & Sayings

Like all cities, Beirut has many layers, and I had been familiar with one or two. What I was introduced to that day with Ali and Kamal was the Beirut of its people. You take different groups, put them on top of each other, simmer for a thousand years, keep adding more and more strange tribes, simmer for another few thousand years, salt and pepper with religion, and what you get is a delightful mess of a stew that still tastes delectable and exotic, no matter how many times you partake of it. — Rabih Alameddine

Finally Cub said, "They don't call it global weirding."
"I know. But I think that's actually the idea."
Cub shook his head. "Weather is the Lord's business. — Barbara Kingsolver

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway. — Jim Brown

The thing about trips is that all the trouble is in the anticipation. — Erika Robuck

I've been making shoes my whole life. — Steve Madden

I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs. — Carly Craig

I don't have a sence of style in real life. I'm more like same-clothes-every-day guy. I don't wear jewelry, I don't wear any of this. — Ken Jeong

The important thing is that if I can get to it and get back out again without being spotted, it will be a useful study aid in my newly chosen specialist field of getting-the-fuck-out-of-here-ology. — Nick Harkaway

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn. — Sophocles

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. — Audrey Niffenegger

Money is good, but it is not all about a man. You will have successes and reversals, but remember it is your reaction to each of them that counts for your character. — Matthew Pearl

After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority. — Elfriede Jelinek

I was trying to learn to write stories, and was reading O'Hara and Hemingway as a carpenter might look at an excellent house someone else has built. — Andre Dubus

fond," one catty countess recalled, "with diamonds scattered — Candace Fleming