Acda Membership Quotes & Sayings

I don't like girls who are shy, and I get a lot of random girls, like when I go to the mall, none of them want to come up to me, like are they scared of me! They're all bug eyed. — Mitchel Musso

In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; — Anonymous

We're at once alone and in close company: this is the great gift of the novel, the element that makes reading more than a solitary pastime. We sit within another's person. — Brenda Walker

I hate TiVo, I hate DVRs. I do not get them. — David Boreanaz

Most people are either sleep walking through their waking life or wake walking through their sleeping life. either way they're not getting much out of it. — Waking Life

Perhaps there is a simple answer
not an easy answer
but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right. — Ronald Reagan

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. — Thomas Browne

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across. — Vince Staples

For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money? How, for instance, is it worse than trade? True, out of a hundred persons, only one can win; yet what business is that of yours or of mine? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oscar leaned in, eyes wide. 'He's keeping me,' he whispered to the kitten.
Pebble chirped. Oscar's eyes flicked to the books underneath his bed. They called out to him: Misfit. Orphan. Idiot.
Oscar coughed and shifted his eyes back to Pebble. 'He thinks I can work the shop ... He said he knew I could do it.'
Wolf: He didn't see you work the shop. He doesn't know. Just wait until he hears.
'He wants me to do the best I can.'
Wolf: If only he knew how bad that was. He'll know soon.
Oscar clenched his hands into fists and squeezed his eyes shut ... 'I'm not going to disappoint him,' Oscar said. He repeated himself once more, in case the words themselves had any power. 'I'm not. — Anne Ursu

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide! — Eleanor Roosevelt

For I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me and quicken my pulse. To be always on one's guard, to catch every look and the significance of every word, to guess intentions, foil conspiracies, pretend to be deceived and then to overthrow with one blow the whole vast edifice of artifices and designs raised with so much effort - that is what I call life. — Mikhail Lermontov

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect. — Hilary Mantel

Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust. — Mary Renault