Dimsey Tile Quotes & Sayings

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong. — William Penn

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets. — Bill Schuette

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street. — Jessica Tandy

It's a wonderful body, he'd whispered the next morning while she was still asleep. Not even the blue silk Loretta Caponi pajamas he'd brought back for her from Florence could disguise its lumpiness. But it was so gorgeously strong. She almost never got sick. She could outswim riptides and ski double diamonds. And even when a wave scraped her into the sand or a patch of ice threw her to the ground, she rarely bruised. He loved that body for taking care of her, for sheltering the one thing he couldn't live without. — Tanya Egan Gibson

I had the fear of heights when I was young, along with many other fears and phobias, including the fear of dogs, bees, horses, and blood. — David D. Burns

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people. — George Whitefield

If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure. — Mary Sue Milliken

I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages ... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange. — Richard Prince

He said, "Family is a prayer. Wife is a prayer. Marriage is a prayer."
"Baptism is a prayer."
"No," he said. "Baptism is a what I'd call a fact. — Marilynne Robinson

I am already married, she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar. — Erin Morgenstern

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me. — Pierce Brown

Beer for breakfast, ale for lunch, stout with dinner and a few mugs in between. The average Northern European, including women and children drank three liters of beer a day. That's almost two six-packs, but often the beer had a much higher alcoholic content. People in positions of power, like the police, drank much more. Finnish soldiers were given a ration of five liters of strong ale a day (about as much as seven six-packs). Monks in Sussex made do with 12 cans worth. — Stewart Lee Allen

Every family has a destiny to fulfill ... Every child is the future of his or her family and nation at large ... Every father is a hero to his son (child) ... Fathers are you truly heroes to your children ... check your thoughts, actions and motives ... are you really living up to your children' s expectations ? — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Haven poured herself some orange juice, pausing. "Did you want some of this, Carmine?"
"Yeah, definitely want some of that. — J.M. Darhower