Easterner Mattress Quotes & Sayings

You see, people like Ben Jelloun have the life of a writer in exile, and this gives them a certain - here Farouq paused, struggling to find the right word - it gives them a certain poeticity, can I say this, in the eyes of the West. To be a writer in exile is a great thing. But what is exile now, when everyone goes and comes freely? — Teju Cole

Almost every convert runs the risk of catching our civilization ... I compassionate missionary, leave China! come home and convert these Christians! — Mark Twain

Write what readers want to read, which isn't necessarily what you want to write. — Nicholas Sparks

I had always been a great talker and teller of tales.
'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your own throat,' our guardian warned me, the night before I left home to go to the royal court at Versailles ... I just laughed. 'Don't you know a woman's tongue is her sword? You wouldn't want me to let my only weapon rust, would you? — Kate Forsyth

He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his own mother. — Steven Morrissey

It's going to be gone soon, isn't it?" he said, more than a tinge of regret in his voice as he studied the large flower.
She nodded, craning her neck to look back at the blue blossom. "It should be gone in another week or two," she said. There was a distinct lack of regret in her voice. "Maybe less, after last night."
Is it really such a bother?"
Sometimes."
David's hands stroked one of the longer petals on the blossom from base to tip, then brought it briefly to his nose and inhaled. "It's just so ... I don't know ... sexy."
Really? But it's so ... plantish. — Aprilynne Pike

I wouldn't say I'm a slut. I'm just in touch with my inner slut. And, let me tell you, she rocks. — Belle Aurora

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous ... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My main focus is on my game. — Tiger Woods

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane. — Chuck Jones

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight. — John Lennon

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so. — H.L. Mencken