Asbury Park Press Quotes & Sayings

Your body is only clothing. Your flesh will wither, but you are your heart and mind, and they do not change except to grow stronger. — Robert Jordan

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing. — Scott Westerfeld

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination. — Violet Trefusis

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe. — Thomas A. Edison

For a minute he stands there, looking at me, and I can tell that he knows why I'm crying, and he understands, and it's going to be all right. He opens his arms to me.
"Come here," he says quietly.
I can't move to him fast enough. I practically fall into him. He catches me and pulls me in tightly to his chest, and I let myself go again, let sobs run through me. He stands there with me and murmurs into my hair and kisses the top of my head and lets me cry over losing another boy, a boy I loved better. — Lauren Oliver

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward. — Beverly Pepper

No one has ever written a romance better than we lived it. — Lauren Bacall

Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I am convinced that healing is often so difficult because we don't want to know the pain. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies. — Saint Francis De Sales

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat. — Linus Torvalds

The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a boy sitting in the dirt with his fingers in a mane of blond hair.
He stared at nothing. Expected nothing. Planned nothing.
Just sat. — Michael Grant

Blood, sweat and respect. The first two you give, the last one you get. — Unknown

Violence needs to stop. All of us - men and women - need to speak up and teach our children that violence is never the solution. Together we can all make a difference. The best place to start is with yourself. — Will Young

Discovery is the chance they never had, to tell, on oath, how wickedness infects a life. One's only life. Beyond one's will, evil comes, looking for a surprise soft spot, a place to inject its poison. — Kaimana Wolff