"I'm as corny as Kansas in August."

-- Oscar Hammerstein II

#August Quotes #Kansas Quotes #Corny Quotes

“There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.”
“Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman to man; there is a very tightly knit criminal law, indeed, a law regulating all areas of life, that is opposed to our modern ideas about society. One has to have a clear understanding that it is not simply a denomination that can be included in the free realm of a pluralistic society.”
“I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?”

Source : Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.228, Penguin
“It's like you're surfing... The same wave that can be a source of pain can be a beautiful flowing grace and source of power. It's all a matter of how you respond to it.”
“Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.”

Source : Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.123, Island Press
“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.”

Source : Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.251
“There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.”
“How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.”

Source : Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

You may also like:

Cole Porter
Composer
George Gershwin
Composer
Ira Gershwin
Lyricist
Irving Berlin
Composer
Jerome Kern
Composer
Julie Andrews
Film actress
Shirley Jones
Singer
Stephen Sondheim
Composer
Yul Brynner
Actor