Erature Quotes & Sayings

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak. — Yael Grobglas

Quilty grimaces. "I don't like what comes after 'dicker.' " "What is that?" Quilty sighs. "Dickest. I mean, really: it's not a contest! — Lorrie Moore

Fuck your fairytale. I just want you. I'll make my own God damn happily ever after. But you're the one who is mistaken. You'll be at the end of that story, beautiful. You either come willingly or you force me into the dark after you. It doesn't matter to me, because either way, I'll find you. — Aly Martinez

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines. — Trieu Thi Choi

Yes. Well, as I said, love can haunt us, and make us do strange things. — Alena Graedon

Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy. — Noel Tichy

Annie looked into his eyes with their blood-crazed whites and for the first time in her life knew how one might come to believe in the devil. — Nicholas Evans

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. — Frederick Douglass

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings. — Russell Page

A. W. Tozer says, "A true and safe leader is likely one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and by the press of the external situation. — Charles R. Swindoll

And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold. — Jimmy Hill

Grand strategy is about marrying ends to means, about doing what you can, consistent with the nation's capabilities and resources. — Robert D. Kaplan

Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains. — Chuck Palahniuk

This process of con-
tinuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but
to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films,
sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of lit-
erature or documentation which might conceivably hold
any political or ideological significance. Day by day and
almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. — George Orwell