Isobels Phone Quotes & Sayings

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief.
"And you so intelligent!"
"Excuse me?" said tom
"Knowing those things are going to kill you" she said "and still you do it."
"How differently I might behave" Tom said, "if immortality were an option — Stephen Fry

There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I can't help who I fall in love with. No one can. — Sheryl Swoopes

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's. — Isabel Allende

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community) — Wendell Berry

Holy gods. He'd frozen the whole damn lake. He was THAT powerful? — Sarah J. Maas

Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier. — Teju Cole

He would bear any burden, endure any hardship, suffer any torment if that suffering added a single moment to her life. — Rick Yancey