Yinsen Quotes & Sayings

Light by its very nature is endless. Therefore you can never say you've had the ultimate experience in light - it goes on forever. — Frederick Lenz

The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect,
So hard to earn so easily burned
In the fullness of time,
A garden to nurture and protect
It's a measure of a life
The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect,
The way you live, the gifts that you give
In the fullness of time,
It's the only return that you expect — Neil Peart

When she finally pulled away from him - much to Aley's stuttering forward reluctance - he wanted only to echo Aley's words:
Oh! Do it again. — Charlotte Stein

[C] an any sane man imagine that they will lightly lay aside their yearning and contentedly become he were of wood and drawers of water? — W.E.B. Du Bois

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture. — Dave Barry

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage. — Jerry Yang

I had to comport myself with something approaching dignity, at twenty. — Carrie Fisher

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal. — Jane Austen

I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions. — Alexei Panshin

I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.' — Larry David

In the early '80s, my sound - especially that mysterious kind of synthesized sound that was used so much - every relatively cheap TV show eventually had it because it's not expensive. It's just one guy doing the whole soundtrack. So it was overdone. — Giorgio Moroder

I can protect you against everything except myself.
- Derek — Lisa Kleypas

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though late, a sure reward succeeds. — William Congreve

I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work. — Fran Lebowitz