Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest Quotes & Sayings

I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish. — Ryan Guzman

We should put God ahead of everyone else in our lives. — Ezra Taft Benson

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it ... — Henri Frederic Amiel

"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted." — Richard Brautigan

Gerald began - but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them "permanently" meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash - to pee. — Jim Gleeson

I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time. — Tahereh Mafi

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain. — John Steinbeck

The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system. — Kinky Friedman

All good stories are true. Even if they were completely made up by the storyteller, there is something in them that resonates with us. Courage. Love. Self-sacrifice. The storyteller makes his story real through the telling. — C.E. Laureano

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders. — Henry Ford

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors. — Louisa May Alcott

No, I want big ol' titties in my face! — Chris Rock

The Eucharist completes the restoration begun in the Crib. Make merry therefore on this beautiful day, on which the sun of the Eucharist is rising. Let your gratitude never separate the Crib from the Altar, the Word made flesh from the God-Man made Bread of Life in the Most Blessed Sacrament — Peter Julian Eymard

For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss
a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil. — Molly Ringle

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter. — Carter Burwell