Garrigues Quotes & Sayings

Sounding frank, honest, and sincere is, of course, a rhetorical strategy in itself, known from ancient literature as parrhesia. It's often employed by liars. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. — Ethel Waters

I'd give anything to make things right for you." He caressed my cheek, my hair, my back. Everywhere he touched, the angry fires cooled. I wished he'd touch my heart. "But I can't. I can help, but the hard work is all up to you. If you don't feel real, no one else can do it for you. I promise, though you've always felt real to me. From the moment I saw you jump off the cliff."
"Sometimes I feel like I'm still jumping off the cliff. — Jodi Meadows

I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts I go to when in specific cities. — Alice Temperley

It takes only one child to raze a village. — Florence King

[I]gnorance was never an obstacle to a good sound bite. — John Connolly

For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them. — Aeschylus

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel. — Mark Twain

Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript. — Zahi Hawass

I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original. — Terry Teachout

No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it. — David Pietrusza

Don't you get it yet,Harriet?" Nick says in total exasperation. "i like that you know about the stars in the rain and the shapes of the clouds and the heartbeat rate of the hummingbird. I like that you know that giraffes don't have vocal cords and the sharks can't stop moving. I like the way you stick your little nose in the air ... — Holly Smale

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff ... forms a base on which to build something better. — Jennifer Egan