Zoccole Quotes & Sayings

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Guys hate anticipation. That's why we all write about satisfaction. Why we never wrap presents. I notice you wrapped mine."
"I thought it was because you're all too cheap to buy wrapping paper. Or too clueless to find it in the store."
"There's that. But honestly, you go to the trouble of getting someone a present, something you think they'd like - why hide it and make them work for it? It's coy. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

In this room hung with the trophies of culture, her story sounded melodramatic and rough. She felt like a squaw explaining how you tanned a deerskin by working brains into the bloody hide and then chewing it all over until it was soft. — Wallace Stegner

The river, tonally, does not recede, presenting the same lifeless grey near and far, a depthless plane upon which Schmitt's dragging oars inscribe parallel lines and Eakins' oars, rising and falling, leave methodically spaced patches of disturbed water. The canvas is haunting - en evocation of the democracy's idyllic, isolating spaciousness, present even in the midst of a great Eastern city. — John Updike

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father. — Lois Greiman

Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'
'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too. — Patricia Highsmith

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist. — George V. Higgins