Billesdon Quotes & Sayings

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. — Jonathan Lethem

In the past, we'd talked about books and other people, but now we talked only of our respective babies, hers sweet-faced and docile, mine at war with the world. — Jenny Offill

As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely. — Chinua Achebe

Are we going where I think we are?" he asked.
"Hell, yeah," I told him, turning the key in the ignition. I steered the car toward the highway that would take us to my mother's house. "And I hope she's got a few good answers."
"I hope," Ramon said, "that she's made cookies."
I glared at him.
"Don't look at me like that. If we were going to interrogate my poor mother for whatever, you'd be secretly hoping she'd made you tamales. I'm just honest enough to admit it. — Lish McBride

He stood in rain and the storm, watching a demon with his face standing and laughing at him on a chariot run by drunk horses. The storm threw dust into his eyes, while the demon unleashed the horses one after the other at him. — Akshay Vasu

I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody. — Felix Hernandez

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling. — Hussein Chalayan

When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown. — Nora Dunn

Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason. — Luigina Sgarro

My wife is so much a part of me, she's like the breath coming into my body. I love her very much. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough. — Paul J. Meyer

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise. — Saul Kripke

Hey, Hazel?" he called softly in the upstairs hall, and she turned. "What did he kiss like?" There was a confusion of emotions on his face
longing and maybe a little jealousy and a whole lot of curiosity.
She snorted a surprised laugh, her bad mood dissolving. "Like he was a shark and I was blood in the water."
"That good?" he asked, grinning. — Holly Black

We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear potential. We will be friends of all, satellites of none. — Errol Barrow

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there. — Bo Jackson