20101113 Quotes & Sayings

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes. — Gregory David Roberts

In Heaven I want to be the age I am. — Margaret Atwood

Lex surfed wicked, like the devil. He wasn't afraid of anything, seemed like. He grinned at West as the waves came up toward them like towers of green glass, an emerald city. We're off to see the wizard, he shouted. He whooped. His body crouched ready to fly. He shone against the sun. — Francesca Lia Block

She had been married to a man who had never bored her and these people bored her very much — Ernest Hemingway,

It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to highlight the need for action on poverty in Africa, and for which so many artists and others are donating their valuable time for nothing [on people selling Live8 concert tickets on eBay] — James Purnell

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things. — Pope Francis

That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia. — Shreya Gupta

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are. — Lamar Alexander

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Her personality was charming to those she loved, and repellent to those she didn't — Jamie McGuire

The arctic atmosphere, necessary for the maintenance of broadcast equipment, is air-conditioner sterile, with occasional stray smells of brewed coffee and toner for photocopying machines. — F.H. Batacan

Oh, aging is ruddy unbearable! The I's we were yearn to breathe the world's air again, but can they ever break out from these calcified cocoons? — David Mitchell

I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia. — Peter Benchley

Dance is in my background. — Rutina Wesley

When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK. — Matt McGorry