Escarpment Live Oak Quotes & Sayings

Probably all babies, having recently been nothing, have a tenuous hold on life. — Maxine Hong Kingston

I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French. — Colson Whitehead

In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics. — Philip J. Davis

I do like to work. I have my kids' books that I do, I have movies that I do, and I model. — Julianne Moore

I am living through days as happy as those God keeps for his chosen people; and whatever becomes of me, I can never say that I have not tasted the purest joys of life. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. — Virginia Woolf

Girls should certainly be heard. It is their voices the world is missing. — Shelley Adina

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator. — Eleanor Smeal

Children are a blessing. They are a happiness so sharp that it feels like pain. — Maureen F. McHugh

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made. — Tom Scholz

All people, he thought with a sigh as he left the room, had their own demons to be fought - or not fought. Perhaps that was what life was all about. Perhaps life was a test to see how well we deal with our own particular demons, and how much sympathy we show others as they tread their own particular path through life.
You do not still hate her?" she asked as he moved her off to the side of the path for an open carriage that was coming toward them. "It is not easy to hate," he said, "when one has lived long enough to know that everyone has a difficult path to walk through life and does not always make wise or admirable choices. There are very few out-and-out villains, perhaps none. Though there are a few who come very close. — Mary Balogh