Alice Sommers Quotes & Sayings

This story is about people, secrets, and time. About people who, not unlike wrapped parcels, cover themselves with layers and layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside. — Cecelia Ahern

Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd? They must
nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance
Be often kissed and tasted. — Philip Massinger

War is simple, direct, and ruthless. — George S. Patton

I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve the greatest mystery or the greatest problem, then that makes you brilliant. It's the same thing with an actress. You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny and all the things that a person could be. — Viola Davis

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world. — Sloane Crosley

I was there was the war began. And when it ended. — Jodi Meadows

Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian. — Carlo Ratti

I create so that each and every woman is the most beautiful — Christian Dior

Hate doesn't last. Love does. — Agatha Christie

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. — Frederick Douglass

Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The "mare" in "nightmare" originally referred to a demonic woman who suffocated sleepers by lying on their chests (she was called "Old Hag" in Newfoundland). — Oliver Sacks