Best Andy Botwin Quotes & Sayings

I could spend the whole afternoon telling you about him, but it's not gonna do much good, is it? You never smelled his hair after he just got out of the bath, or carried him from the car after he'd fallen asleep on the way home, or heard the way he laughed when someone tickled him. So you'll just have to take my word for it: He was a great kid and he made you glad to be alive. — Tom Perrotta

We're fresh out of flying boys. — Rick Riordan

These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides. — Swami Vivekananda

In no man's land, alien is the queen. — Toba Beta

And then his arms were around me. When he kissed me it was hungrier somehow, as if this moment was all we had, and we had to taste it, drink it, savor it, and not waste a single drop. — Ally Carter

We've been training and playing full-time since we were 18 and 19. So after tennis, we'll be excited to see what it's like to have more free time. — Venus Williams

We attempt to conceal ourselves, Emily, but the truth is we do not entirely want to be concealed. We want to be found. — Max Barry

On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net. — Czeslaw Milosz

Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do. — Steve Burns

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The public will only stand genius in infintesimal doses,sprinkled with mannerisms and fashionable literature ... A fashionable genius!Doesn't that make you laugh?..what a waste of power! — Romain Rolland

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator. — Sam Storms

Greetings from sunny Seattle, where women are "gals," people are "folks," a little bit is a "skosh," if you're tired you're "logy," if something is slightly off it's "hinky," you can't sit Indian-style but you can sit "crisscross applesauce," when the sun comes out it's never called "sun" but always "sunshine," boyfriends and girlfriends are "partners," nobody swears but someone occasionally might "drop the f-bomb," you're allowed to cough but only into your elbow, and any request, reasonable or unreasonable, is met with "no worries."
Have I mentioned how much I hate it here? — Maria Semple

Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently! — Pitirim Sorokin