Gebeten Appel Quotes & Sayings

My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink. — Hester Lucy Stanhope

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures. — Jennifer Crusie

Now here is Gardiner, patting a manuscript as if it were the cheek of a plump baby: 'The king will be pleased to read this. I have called it, Of True Obedience.' 'You had better let me see it before it goes to the printer.' 'The king himself will expound it to you. It shows why oaths to the papacy are of none effect, yet our oath to the king, as head of the church, is good. It emphasises most strongly that a king's authority is divine, and descends to him directly from God.' 'And not from a pope. — Hilary Mantel

I had a reputation for scary smiles that sent children shrieking away. Evil clowns had nothing on me. — Ann Charles

Americans could achieve Jefferson's democratic freedoms through Hamilton's economic development strategies and trade policies. — Patrick Mendis

Maybe he's lonely, she said, and I just looked at her wondering if she expected me to open a Home for the Socially Challenged or what. Then she started giggling and I had the feeling we were thinking the same thing, namely, some people are lonely for all the right reasons. — Meg Rosoff

Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates. — Ernest Becker

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira. — Mo Rocca

To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country. — John Paul Stevens

I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it. — Mike Nichols