Intertexual Quotes & Sayings

Oftentimes the root of their marriage problems is found in some hostility they have been hauling around, sometimes since childhood. — Charles F. Stanley

The deep map configures narratives. It is a matrix of intertexual storytelling, charting our movements through the landscape. — Linda Lappin

He that makes a good war makes a good peace. — George Herbert

Memory ... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde

People beleived that the most devastating part of a war are the corpses with their guts out in the open, the puddles of blood, and all that you can capture at first glance. But sometimes the horror is off to the side, in the lost look on the face of a woman who's just been raped, as she limps away alone within the ruins, trying to keep her head down. Gerda and Capa were not aware of this yet. They were too young. And that was their first conflict. They still believed war had its romantic side. — Susana Fortes

Freddie will have been dead for 20 years in November. I was staggered because it doesn't seem possible that all that time has passed and I still miss him. He was my best friend, my best man. We shared so much and I owe so much to him. — Roger Meddows Taylor

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves. — Milan Kundera

I suppose you'll want to see the aliens now," he said. "Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing? — Douglas Adams

Cooking with your kids is a remarkable exercise to let them in on the purchasing part of the process - kids love to shop, and its great to take them to these ethnic places where people don't always speak the language. — Tom Douglas

Well, my smile's pretty hard to miss, considering I'm a gal who likes her lipstick-the redder the better. — Dolly Parton

Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution. — Henry Petroski

As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly. — Jay Parini

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need. — Leo Buscaglia

You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.
That's not quite the same as wishing to be one — David Mitchell

This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me. — Frederick Lenz

I apprehend ... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse. — Thomas Jefferson