Bestowing Def Quotes & Sayings

But you love books, then," Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.
"Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they are the only thing that keeps me alive."
"What a strange thing to say at your age," she laughed.
"No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope - - that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved. — Anne Rice

Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism. — Winston Churchill

I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone? — Edward Abbey

I want to be as big as I can be. To me, being big is just playing in front of a lot of people. And that's my goal. — Joe Armstrong

I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo. — Dan Auerbach

A castaway adrift on my own little island - rich and with my family along with thousands of beautiful, drunken tourists to keep me company." - excerpt from Confessions of an Internet Pornographer. — Luis Mario

As in the movie The Matrix, we might one day be able to download memories and skills using computers. — Michio Kaku

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway. — Peter Tork

The value of a person is what he does best. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

We must understand that our talents and our wealth are only loaned to us, in trusteeship, to use toward the greater good. — Christopher Benninger

I sat at the very back of the class - the blackboard could have been in another country. The words were just circus horses dancing up and down. At least, they never stayed still long enough for me to work out what they were saying. The — Sally Gardner