Glass Castle Lori Walls Quotes & Sayings

Oh, yes," I said. "My favorite was one I picked up from a Yank. Man named Williamson, from New York, I believe. He said it every time I changed his dressing." "What was it?" " 'Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ,' " I said, and dropped the sugar — Diana Gabaldon

That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it. — Pittacus Lore

If you're wondering where the Lord is at this very hour, I tell you He's alive and well with resurrection power! — Carman

My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as you get out of bed." " ... Because, really," I continued, "there is no point in staying here." "There is no point in staying anywhere," said Lolita. — Vladimir Nabokov

No sooner looked but they loved. — Nora Roberts

You need to find yourself a new hero. - Skulduggery Pleasant. — Derek Landy

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book. — Nora Roberts

I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane. — Howie Mandel

At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country. — Mario Testino

If you never play you will never lose, but you won't win either. If you never climb a mountain you will never know for sure how good the view is. — Debbie Shapiro

My priority is my family, absolutely, 100 percent. — Madonna Ciccone

it is always possible to practice "I have arrived, I am home." I have run all my life; I am not going to run anymore; now I am determined to stop and really live my life. When — Thich Nhat Hanh

The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed. — David A. Bednar

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me. — Lucy Powell

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again. — Michael Jordan