Conrad Aiken Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
-
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
-
Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.
-
'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
-
People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
-
My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
-
I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
-
We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
-
Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
-
There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
-
'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'
-
I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
-
I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
-
At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.
-
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
-
Without electricity, the air would rot.
-
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
-
Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
-
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
-
'Successive technological revolutions have immeasurably widened the psychological gap between generations. With some reason, perhaps, the man of the age of electricity and of the airplane feels himself removed from his masters.'
-
China... has the capacity to ensure its stability and growth.
-
As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds or faiths can recognize each other's humanity, or creating a world in which every kid, regardless of their background, can strive and achieve and fulfill their potential.
-
I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.
-
In one room, silently, lover looks upon lover,And thinks the air is fire.
