Colianni Maine Quotes & Sayings

The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state. — John Podhoretz

The doorbell rang, but we all knew better than to get up. I don't know how many keys to my parent's house circulated in Montgomery. It was largely pointless as the door never seemed to be locked anyway. I wondered if my parents worried about crime, but having at least nineteen serving police officers in the family, I figured any criminal who decided to break in would probably get a standing ovation for sheer audacity. And then live to regret it. — Camilla Chafer

I have a personal ritual. Just like 10 minutes before a show, I'll open a beer, just so it feels like I've just arrived at a party. I have a few sips, then we go on stage. — Ed Robertson

I'm a fucking coward."
"Maybe." Craw jerked his thumb over his shoulder at Whirrun's corpse. "There's a hero. Tell me who's better off. — Joe Abercrombie

If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all. — Erich Fromm

In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year. — Cynthia Rylant

You've traveled this far on the back of every mistake, ridden in dark-eyed and morose but calm as a house after the TV set has been pitched out the upstairs window. (from "Antilamentation") — Dorianne Laux

Anyone can be happy when times are good; the richer experience is to be happy when times are not — Susan Harris

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him. — Karen Blixen

Travelling fills me with dread. — Tom Hodgkinson

The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains. — Bernard DeVoto

If you're worried I have some devious secret
plan to seduce you, you can just pull my plug
out. — Jojo Moyes

There's a little rack along the front of the counter bearing religious tracts, free for the taking, donation requested. Several slots on the rack are occupied by the Reverend Wayne's famous bestseller. How America Was Saved from Communism: ELVIS SHOT JFK. — Neal Stephenson

This is government. There is no entertainment. — Judy Davis

Every angel is terrible. — Rainer Maria Rilke