Avant famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

  • A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

  • To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.

  • Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.

  • O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

  • My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

  • I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

  • Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

  • G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

  • Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

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