Aisle Runner Quotes & Sayings

swimming the Djel was as feasible as nailing fog to the wall. He — Terry Pratchett

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?"
"Fantastically delicious cinnamon things? — Erin Morgenstern

Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer. — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children. — Richard Linklater

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. — Jim Rohn

I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did. — Stephan Pastis

If so, it is inaccurate to say that the majority 'enjoy bad pictures'. They enjoy the ideas suggested to them by bad pictures. They do not really see the pictures as they are. If they did, they could not live with them. There is a sense in which bad work never is nor can be enjoyed by anyone. The people do not like the bad picture because the faces in them are like those of puppets and there is no real mobility in the lines that are meant to be moving and no energy or grace in the whole design. These faults are simply invisible to them; as the actual face of the Teddy-bear is invisible to an imaginative and warm-hearted child when it is absorbed in its play. It no longer notices that the eyes are only beads. — C.S. Lewis

Couldst thou find no other sort of punishment for these sinners but bearding them? — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

He walked jauntily away, being hungry, and the unfortunate Matthew was left to do that which was harder for him than bearding a lion in its den - walk up to a girl - a strange girl - an orphan girl - and demand of her why she wasn't a boy. — L.M. Montgomery

First make peace inside yourself. — Nick Nolte

A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind. — Keanu Reeves

There was still the temptation to believe the world was a mere trap for human sin. But sin, the way he saw it, was only the failure of an imperfectly made being to keep a perfect law. — Matthew Pearl

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers. — Martha Grimes