Borrellis Salon Quotes & Sayings

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. — Denis Diderot

A clock only turns one direction — Nancy E. Turner

Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her ... chest.'
Iggy drew in a hissing breath.
It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.'
Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin. — James Patterson

Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives. — Juan Felipe Herrera

It was one thing to believe that such things were possible thousands of years ago, another to have it happen now, to us, this very day. — Corrie Ten Boom

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money. — Ike Turner

When we talk of fate, when we talk of a fatalistic vision of human experience, what we mean is that the most important forces that shape human lives are out of human control. — Petina Gappah