Wiki Markup Quotes & Sayings

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. — Honore De Balzac

The Baby said, 'Wanty go walky'; and the fly stopped with a last rattle and jolt. — E. Nesbit

Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood. — Terry Teachout

As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child. — Peter Schjeldahl

I'm not going to do it again," Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again. — Aaron Michael Ritchey

In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover. — Hugh Panaro

Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding. — Andre Comte-Sponville

My flight arrives at eight in the morning," he mentioned casually. "Any chance you can come and get me?"
...
"Pick you up from the airport? That seems hardcore, Ty. Normally, I'm married to a guy for at least a couple weeks before I take that big a step. — Rachel Harris

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit. — Roger Von Oech

I've always been very tied to language. — Barbara Kruger

Men are from Mars. Zombies are from Hell. — Jesse Petersen

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people. — Vladimir Putin

If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so? — Bertrand Russell

Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions. — Niccolo Machiavelli