Firestreak Books Quotes & Sayings

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so. — Townsend Harris

Don't lose your time gazing at the spilled milk. There are other cows to milk — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Time had been reset by catastrophe. — Emily St. John Mandel

Life is a horse: either you ride it or it rides you. — Gregory McDonald

We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not. — Charles Caleb Colton

Checking email every 45 seconds is not only compulsive, it's presumptuous. It suggests a belief that anyone who sends us a message needs us to read it immediately, even if the message is from SkyMall telling us our Bigfoot Garden Yeti statue has shipped. — Meghan Daum

People's minds can't be a complete blank. Human beings' emotions are not strong or consistent enough to sustain a vacuum. — Haruki Murakami

It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing. — Angelina Jolie

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage. — Dave Eggers

I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did ... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it. — Carnie Wilson

If the doctors cure
then the sun sees it.
If the doctors kill
then the earth hides it.
The doctors should fear arrogance
more than cardiac arrest. — Anne Sexton

Remind me again, why are you talking to me? I thought we had an understanding. I said I wasn't a petri dish and you agreed. — Erica M. Chapman

13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn't shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. — Anonymous

I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia. — Victor Pinchuk