Creedmoor Quotes & Sayings

I feel - as though a new chamber of my heart has opened." "Listen. — Eleanor Catton

Every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality. — John Muir

The servants were evil," he said, recalling the tale the way the whiskey priest they sent to Creedmoor told it, sitting with Mr. Persichetti at the nurses' station late into the night, those watery blue eyes forever bloodshot and sleepless. "They told the crazy chieftain that he should marry his beautiful daughter instead. Which he tried to do." ("If you get my meaning," the priest had said.) "But Dymphna ran off to Belgium." He saw her grimace and purse her lips, her face seemed to swell with color. "Her crazy father followed her," he said, tightening his own grip on her hand. "I guess he cut off her head. — Alice McDermott

My name is John Creedmoor, and I would like to confess my crimes. Hope you all weren't going anywhere this week ... — Felix Gilman

Silence never makes any blunders. — Josh Billings

'Cosby' opened up so many people's vision to something that they had never seen before or really contemplated before and exposed them to things that were going on that were completely below their radar. — Tempestt Bledsoe

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. — Theodor Adorno

I never think that any writer can teach someone how to write. — Mary Balogh

Jones's faithful old friend and chronicler O. B. Keeler, now fifty-five and still covering the sport for the Atlanta Journal, was on hand to witness his victory and interviewed Byron in the locker room afterward. The unfailingly literate Keeler mentioned that Byron's back nine charge had put him in mind of Lord Byron's poem about Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. His headline the next day read: LORD BYRON WINS MASTERS. — Mark Frost

She recalled how Pauline had fallen off a bus one night, late, went skidding into Creedmoor. In a novel, it would have portended the fall they were all about to take — Alice McDermott

Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark. — Stephen Rodrick

That wasn't blood. It was love. It pours out of you when you lose faith. — Debra Anastasia

Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power. — Amartya Sen

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge. — Ivana Trump

I knew he used women as counters in a game, Bobby Quine versus time and the night of cities. And Rikki had turned up just when he needed something to get him going, something to aim for. So he'd set her up as a symbol for everything he wanted and couldn't have, everything he'd had and couldn't keep. — William Gibson

When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read. — Mary Street