Windjammers On The Pier Quotes & Sayings

To a man across a thousand years I offer a handshake.
I say to him: Brother, make the story short, for the stretch of a thousand years is short. — Carl Sandburg

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.
- Blanche Scene II — Tennessee Williams

I'd stopped trying to greet her ages ago. She was one of those people that didn't wave back. I'd never understood how you could do that, just ignore a wave or a greeting, but it seemed to be a consistent attribute for crazy people. I mean, how hard was it to stop pretending you didn't see anyone around you and just wave? Why wouldn't you want to be friendly in the most casual of waves with the people that lived next door to you? Because crazy. — R.K. Lilley

Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot — Gore Vidal

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Barrow, who evidently had never seen an atlas, felt superior to Descartes, Rembrandt, and Beethoven. — Ken Follett

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law. — Benjamin Disraeli

If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters? — Gertrude Atherton

Spend and be free, but make no waste. — John Ray