Barrons College Quotes & Sayings

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different. — Roger Moore

He's in that larva stage, the damp, pained shedding of the child's body. This is what boarding school is for. To store them away during years like this, so they can suffer without the embarrassment of their parents watching. — Adam Haslett

They were both going to the big country where there were more psychiatrists than anywhere else in the world. We could just as well say more swimming pools, more Nobel prizewinners, more strategic bombers, more apple pies, more computers, more natural parks, more libraries, more cheerleaders, more serial killers, more newspapers, more raccoons, many of many more things, because it was the country of More. No doubt because the people who lived there had left their own countries precisely because they wanted more, especially more freedom. (Hector and the Search for Happiness) * — Francois Lelord

I'm lucky, because I started action movies at the age of 25. Now I'm 47, and I'm still kicking like a mule, and I'm as flexible as before. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about. — Peter Ackroyd

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power. — Salman Rushdie

Also, I realized a lot of kids are listening to me. Whether I want to be or not, they're looking up to me. — Donald Glover

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. — Garry Marshall

I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane. — Karen Marie Moning

Your pretty college boy isn't so pretty anymore."
"He isn't my pretty college boy."
Our gazes locked.
"But I still think he's pretty pretty," I said, just to antagonize him.
See you in bed with him like I saw in the Silvers, I'll kill him.
I blinked. I did not just see that in Barrons' eyes. — Karen Marie Moning

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. — Hideki Tojo

History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes. — Pete Sessions

Dee would not be taking him to Olive Garden. That was where I drew the line. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

across the pale glimmering of sand, — Algernon Blackwood

The uncle lit up and blew smoke in a thin blue viper's breath toward the window. It coiled and diffused in the yellow light. He smiled. I'd like to have a dollar for every time I quit, he said. — Cormac McCarthy