Britni Quotes & Sayings
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Jo Wood was sound, sound as a bell. Solid, cynical, amused and occasionally amusing, he did not appear to be very intelligent, and unlike Richard Fawcett and me, seemed uninterested in words, ideas and the world. But one day he said to me:
'I've got it now. It's reading isn't it?'
'I'm sorry?'
'You read a lot, don't you? That's where it all comes from. Reading. Yeah, reading.'
The next time I saw him he had a Herman Hesse novel in his hands. I never saw him again without a book somewhere on his person. When I heard, some years later, that he had got into Cambridge I thought to myself, I know how that happened. He decided one day to read. — Stephen Fry

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality. — Yann Martel

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was. — Martin Amis

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. — Edmund Burke

I couldn't make my pencil scratch out the lines of Britni/Brenna's face. Couldn't make it curve into the contours of Dad's guilty eyes
his big secret blown up. Would he marry her? Would they have children together? I couldn't make myself imagine Dad holding some creamy-faced baby, cooing down at it, telling it he loved it. Taking it to baseball games. Living some life he'd probably consider his "real life," the one he deserved rather than the one he got. — Jennifer Brown

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. — Archibald Cox

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve. — J. C. Watts

St. Augustine asked where time came from. He said it came out of the future which didn't exist yet, into the present that had no duration, and went into the past which had ceased to exist. — Graham Greene

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly. — Dustin Hoffman

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference. — Marc Morial

It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry about. — Philip K. Dick

Conscience is a thousand swords. — William Shakespeare

Few simple rules: respect your elders, take care of your body, finish what you start, and solve your own problems. — Penelope Douglas

What? I never make things worse," Puck replied, stepping forward to deal with another eddy swooshing in from the side. "I make things more interesting. — Julie Kagawa

The gods were on the point of giving up when Brahma said, 'I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. he will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is already within. — Kate Atkinson

It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions. — John Stuart Mill