Cissie Graham Quotes & Sayings

Staring at the blue sky causes insomnia to occur in the human — Steven Magee

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone — John Updike

No it was my choice. It's what I wanted to do. And I knew they'd probably send me to Iraq. It's not like anybody lied to me."
She groans. "Billy, all these mofos ever do is lie. You think if they halfway told the truth we'd even be in a fucking war? You know what I think, I think we don't deserve to have you guys die for us. No country that lets It's leaders lie like that deserves a single soldier to die for it. — Ben Fountain

The story of the "bondage" in Egypt, of the use of the Jews as slaves in great construction enterprises, their rebellion and escape - or emigration - to Asia, has many internal signs of essential truth, mingled, of course, with supernatural interpolations customary in all the historical writings of the ancient East. — Will Durant

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education, — Eduardo J. Padron

If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose! — Bill Rancic

How come you have never written a song about me?
I'm not really good at writing about things that make me happy. — Gayle Forman

Bossuet has a sentence which is beyond the comprehension of an apostle who does not realize what must be the soul of his apostolate. It runs: "When God desires a work to be wholly from His hand, he reduces all to impotence and nothingness, and then He acts." Nothing wounds God so much as pride. — Jean-Baptiste Chautard

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums. — Larry McMurtry