Asquith Author Quotes & Sayings

Never is a concept the Yankees won't ever come across. — Andy Pettitte

And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. — Callimachus

Toward the end of his second decade in the airport, Clark was thinking about how lucky he'd been. Not just the mere fact of survival, which was of course remarkable in and of itself, but to have seen one world end and another begin. And not just to have seen the remembered splendors of the former world, the space shuttles and the electrical grid and the amplified guitars, the computers that could be held in the palm of a hand and the high-speed trains between cities, but to have lived among those wonders for so long. To have dwelt in that spectacular world for fifty-one years of his life. Sometimes he lay awake in Concourse B of the Severn City Airport and thought, "I was there," and the thought pierced him through with an admixture of sadness and exhilaration. — Emily St. John Mandel

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. — George R R Martin

It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it. — Danny Meyer

Arson, kidnapping, I think I'm up to murder. Maybe all this will get me just a glimmer of attention, not the good, glorious kind, but still the national media kind. — Chuck Palahniuk

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of. — Angelina Jolie

Holy shit. What does that mean? Does he white-slave small children to some God-forsaken part of the planet? — E.L. James

Is the kind of smile she loves best: It's like a sneeze, a reflex, a twitch, helpless and automatic, and it only happens when he looks at her. — Jennifer E. Smith