Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020
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Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCEveryone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?
—Aristophanes, 414 BCThere is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCWhat delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960