1809 River Quotes & Sayings

What is actually happening inside readers as they read? Each reader has a unique emotional response to a story. It's unpredictable, but it's real. Readers read under the influence of their own temperaments, histories, biases, morality, likes, dislikes, and peeves. They make judgments that don't agree with yours. So how can a writer predict, never mind control, what readers feel? Psychological — Donald Maass

You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort! — P.D. Eastman

Get excellence or live average. — Onyi Anyado

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself. — Kristan Higgins

We need to stop viewing our food as an industrial project and renew our view of it as a natural sustaining force. — Bill Bowling

In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel ... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction. — Tom Paulin

I have a regular, normal private life. — Francois-Henri Pinault

I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by. — Harvey Milk

I'm sorry." The words were hurried and a little garbled but unmistakable. She raised an eyebrow and noticed that he had trouble meeting her eyes.

"For which item on your long list of indiscretions?" she asked as she toyed with the pen.

"All of them?"

"Please. I don't do blanket forgiveness." She waved her hand dismissively and was delighted to see a grin flirt along the corners of his mouth. — Natasha Anders

There is no room in my body for anything but you. — William Goldman

I have over 35 tattoos. — Elle King

It was as if the pearly gates had just opened and God had walked out and said, "Pax, my son, I'm going to free you from your addiction. I'm going to let you see why you've been using heroin and all the other drugs for the past ten years. — Pax Prentiss

There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent. — Xavi

How many men
Have spent their blood in their dear country's service,
Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves,
That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on,
Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up,
Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for. — Thomas Otway