Conscripted Convict Quotes & Sayings

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them. — Jodi Picoult

All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest ... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species. — Charles De Lint

I swear to God ... "
"God doesn't come to this part of the house, so swear to me." -Liam C — J.J. McAvoy

It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldn't the care of babies and children be thought of that way too? — Donald Woods Winnicott

In his later life Mark Twain was accorded high academic honors. Already, in 1888, he had received from Yale College the degree of Master of Arts, and the same college made him a Doctor of Literature in 1901. A year later the university of his own State, at Columbia, Missouri, conferred the same degree, and then, in 1907, came the crowning honor, when venerable Oxford tendered him the doctor's robe. "I don't know why they should give me a degree like that," he said, quaintly. "I never doctored any literature - I wouldn't know how. — Mark Twain

Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself. — Richard Branson

I'm perfectly healthy. — Emmanuel Lewis

You keep looking at me like that and we won't make it through dinner. I'll take you right there on that counter. No doubt you'd taste better. — Kelly Moran

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that. — Tennessee Ernie Ford

Love had a thousand shapes. — Virginia Woolf

Today the Washington Post did an article; they compared the 2008 presidential election to the 1932 presidential election. They did a comparison, mainly because 1932 was the first time John McCain ran for president. — Conan O'Brien

He thinks, if you were born in Putney, you saw the river every day, and imagined it widening out to the sea. Even if you had never seen the ocean you had a picture of it in your head from what you had been told by foreign people who sometimes came upriver. You knew that one day you would go out into a world of marble pavements and peacocks, of hillsides buzzing with heat, the fragrance of crushed herbs rising around you as you walked. You planned for what your journeys would bring you: the touch of warm terra-cotta, the night sky of another climate, alien flowers, the stone-eyed gaze of other people's saints. But if you were born in Aslockton, in flat fields under a wide sky, you might just be able to imagine Cambridge: no farther. — Hilary Mantel

If you admit your fear to yourself and to him, then maybe this time you can face it instead of running away.' Even as he spoke the words to her, they hit him in the gut. He could dole out advice. But he wasn't great at following it. He'd been running away from his past for ten years. — Jody Hedlund

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance ... — Anna Katharine Green

Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid. — Alfred Hershey