Ingegerd Marklund Quotes & Sayings

Tiffany read the sign and smiled. "Aha," she said. There was nothing to knock on, so she added "Knock, knock" in a louder voice. A woman's voice from within said: "Who's there?" "Tiffany," said Tiffany. "Tiffany who?" said the voice. "Tiffany who isn't trying to make a joke. — Terry Pratchett

After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive. — Douglas Coupland

Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream. — Desiree Akhavan

It was fine," I said stiffly. "We played Mouse Trap." "Is that what they're calling it these days?" she asked, throwing me a terrible grin. "I have to go give Rachel a quick bath. Feel free to make yourself some cocoa or whatever you like!" She stopped short of adding " ... future child-bride of my only son. — Maureen Johnson

I want to make time stretchier. I would like much more rubbery days, and I just wish that you could lean on a week, and sort of push the walls out a bit, and suddenly about nineteen extra days would rush in to fill the vacuum. — Neil Gaiman

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement. — Maya Angelou

Nature is bent on new beginning
and death has not a chance of winning ... — Rosy Cole

Attitude is better than aptitude. — Toba Beta

Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened. - SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL — Gary S. Bobroff

Reality is the raw material, language is the way I go in search of it - and the way I do not find it. But it is from searching and not finding that what I did not know was born, and which I instantly recognise. Language is my human effort. My destiny is to search and my destiny is to return empty-handed. But - I return with the unsayable. The unsayable can only be given to me through the failure of my language. Only when the construction fails, can I obtain what I could not achieve. — Clarice Lispector

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it. — Sam Ewing

I love to create and I love to be challenged and I love to do things that are scary, so I think I would probably think about jumping off a bridge if somebody told me that's going to make that shot real great. I'd be like, "Okay, here we go, let's do it." Like, yeah. — Emmy Rossum

When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the hunger of a child. — John Art