Alaras Ii Quotes & Sayings

Sig idly stuck her index finger in her cup of steaming-hot coffee and stirred it. I couldn't decide it it was mildly erotic or mildly disgusting. — Elliott James

A good horse makes short miles. — George Eliot

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect. — John Philip Sousa

The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is. — Philip Roth

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. — B.B. King

Books should be about the people you know, that you love and hate, not about the people you study up about. — Ernest Hemingway,

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, 'I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again? — Margaret Maron

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught. — Laurence Sterne

To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar. — Derek Thompson

My strength was overpowered by my weakness for you. — Colleen Hoover

Er, um, well. Most of the things coming out of my mouth are sounds, not words. Seems you spend enough time by yourself dumpster diving, you forget basic
human social skills — Alexandra Bracken

After all, for a seaman, to scrape the bottom of the thing that's supposed to float all the time under his care is the unpardonable sin. No one may know of it, but you never forget the thump - eh? A blow on the very heart. You remember it, you dream of it, you wake up at night and think of it - years after - and go hot and cold all over. — Joseph Conrad

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract. — Theodore L. Cuyler

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way. — David Icke

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, - it is a plaything. — Thomas Love Peacock