Arca Real Time Quotes & Sayings

I never put real people into my fiction
I can't see the slightest point of that, when I have the alternative of inventing utterly subservient slave-people, whose every detail of appearance and behavior I can bend to serve my theme and plot. — Barbara Kingsolver

Do you ever wish you knew the answers on jeopardy ahead of time so you could win a million dollars too? A coach gives you that kind of edge. And instead of a TV game show you'll be winning at life. — Michael McGovern

I was out of salt so I threw pepper over my left shoulder for luck and the poor guy behind me almost sneezed himself to death. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

"Cardinal Baggia," the killer hissed. "Have you prayed yet?" The Italian's eyes were fearless. "Only for your soul. — Dan Brown

More than 50 percent of Americans have breached the drug laws. Where a law is that widely broken, you can't possibly enforce it against every lawbreaker. The legal system would collapse under the weight of it. So you go after the people who are least able to resist, to argue back, to appeal - the poorest and most disliked groups. In the United States, they are black and Hispanic people, with a smattering of poor whites. — Johann Hari

And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders. — Edie Brickell

It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,
all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture. — Ralph Waldo Emerson