Fingersmith Book Quotes & Sayings

Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do not wax their fire engines and cruise down the local parade route, lights flashing; they are not the subject of countless popular books and movies; major politicians do not honor their sacrifices on the Senate floor or from the Rose Garden; they do not have bagpipe bands, fancy equipment, enduring icons, or other signifiers of honor verifying the importance of their activity. — Matthew Desmond

It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways. — Jacque Fresco

I knew absolutely nothing about bondage. I'd always presumed it was just an inventive way of keeping your partner from going home. — Kathy Lette

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way. — Isabelle Eberhardt

I'm angry that George Bush got to be in the White House, and I'm angry that [Al] Gore wasn't able to be a better candidate after eight years of a great economy and being an incumbent. — Eddie Vedder

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking. — Stanley Tucci

The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her. — Vitruvius

She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you. — Sarah Waters

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live. — Lev Grossman

8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God? — Anonymous

There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. — Bob Goff

I don't want only a career. — Rosie O'Donnell