Benkowski John Quotes & Sayings

This was still the era - it would end later in that famous decade - when to be young was a social encumbrance, a mark of irrelevance, a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure. — Ian McEwan

Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the time when they need them. Cosmic forces guide such passings-along. — Erica Jong

Don't tell me you have OCD about this?"
"OCD, ADHD - pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I'd have it. — Cyma Rizwaan Khan

The body image took a real battering. I had really not taken on board how I would feel dressed in a flimsy dress in front of millions of people. — Lynda Bellingham

Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. If you'd asked me
three months ago I'd have said you were hitting the bottle too hard. But then I
got stabbed and should have died, but instead a bunch of cops and ambulance
people showed up because somebody who wasn't even there sent them on ahead to save my life. If something like that happens to someone like me, you start to
have a little faith in something bigger. I don't know if I believe in magic or miracles all the time. But I believe in you, Detective Walker. I believe in you. — C.E. Murphy

villains need to develop a villainous laugh, so that they may simultaneously celebrate their villainous deeds and frighten whatever nonvillainous people happen to be nearby. — Lemony Snicket

The wages of sin are an expensive infection. — Elvis Costello

Treat failure as feed-backs and you will find that success becomes a matter of time — John C.

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. — Herbert V. Prochnow

If I was being honest with myself, I knew I was eager to get to school because I would see Edward Cullen. And that was very, very stupid. — Stephenie Meyer

Aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated? — Suzanne Collins

He gave me an appealing look, which fell with a thud between us: — Ross Macdonald

But when people are tested, they gain strength. When they are broken, they heal stronger. — Hilary Thompson

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can. — Jennifer Lopez

I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom of some cruelly bred plant; admiration for the world spread for the world to see on my gullible face-unlike my other face with the sour look of a starved peasant. — Maureen Howard