Annie Griffiths Belt Quotes & Sayings

My adolescence was all tits and champagne. I'm downplaying the magic of it all. — Greg Kinnear

You got me a birthday cake. It was pink. I smashed it into the ceiling. — Karen Marie Moning

Just as there are broken people, there are broken places on this earth. Some have always been broken. All cities have such neighborhoods at their edges, and this city is all edges ... block after block of bleakly hopeless outskirts.
People don't bury dead cities. They abandon them. They abandon them to the poorest of the poor, to the lost and the doomed. — Robert Dunbar

But the silent stranger could hardly have understood what was passing: she was a German who had not long been in Russia and knew not a word of Russian, and she seemed to be as stupid as she was handsome. She was a novelty and it had become a fashion to invite her to certain parties, sumptuously attired, with her hair dressed as though for a show, and to seat her in the drawing-room as a charming decoration, just as people sometimes borrow from their friends for a special occasion a picture, a statue, a vase, or a fire-screen. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages. — Ogwo David Emenike

Dropping toward the watershed, the sun filled the place with evening light and kindled the windows and the western flanks of cupolas and steeples and many belfries, darkening the eastern walls with shadow; and as we gazed, one of them began to strike the hour and another took up the challenge, followed by a third and soon enormous tonnages of sectarian bronze were tolling their ancient rivalries into the dusk. — Patrick Leigh Fermor

I understand that in some industries, the input cost of energy is a major factor in whether an industry is going to locate in the United States or go elsewhere. — Mitt Romney

The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence. — Tahir Shah

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic. — J.G. Ballard

Since you're probably going to die, you might as well know- I love you nearly as much as I hate you."
His eyes fluttured just once as he murmured, "Me too. — Teresa Medeiros

I don't sign contracts for my books. — Andrew Vachss

One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men. — Thucydides