Emad Cup Quotes & Sayings

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Still (very still), at the heart of "literary culture" is the big, blockbuster novel by middle-of-the-road writers, the run-of-the-mill four-hundred-page page-turner. Amazingly, people continue to want to read that. — David Shields

The dead has always been within us, its just the graveyard where we lay to rest. — Anthony Liccione

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice. — Amanda Hearst

I hate reading stuff that is depressing or morbid or in any way crappy. That's what life is for. — Marci Lyn Curtis

But as they walked home together through the leaf-plastered streets, under that eerie refulgence, her father seemed to have divined her plans. This was in his manner, not his words: they were halfway home before he spoke. "Amanda," he said. He paused. "I want you to realize the consequences before you do something youll be sorry for." He did not look at her, and she too kept her eyes to the front. "You know that when I say a thing I mean it - I mean it to the hilt. So tell your young man this, Amanda. Tell him that the day you marry without my consent I'll cut you off without a dime. Without so much as one thin dime, Amanda. I'll cut you off, disown you, and what is more I'll never regret it. I'll never so much as think your name again." Up to now he had spoken slowly, pausing between phrases. But now the words came fast, like fencing thrusts. "Tell your young man that, Amanda, and see what he says." Major — Shelby Foote

Darwinism is not eugenics, but all eugenicists were devoted Darwinists, staring with Darwin's sons Leonard. — A.E. Samaan

Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter's day. — St John Morris

If I go on talking and talking ... and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back. — Bill Murray

You must be a fundamentalist to be really successful in the market. — John Templeton

I feel like I'm back visiting an old grandmother. She's crotchety and eccentric, but also elegant, and anyone who doesn't fall in love with her has no imagination. — Tony Lema

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. — Gena Showalter

The more you have, the more you have that needs fixing. — Karl Lehenbauer

To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it. — Henry Latham Doherty

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe