Janaye Murphy Quotes & Sayings

A tragi-comedy, telling of an impoverished minister's desperate attempts to gain money by any means, beginning with a mercenary marriage and ending with sorcery. I should think it might be received very well. I believe I shall call it, ' Tis Pity She's a Corpse. — Susanna Clarke

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught. — Lucian Freud

Three deaths - by snakebite, by explosion, by razor. What next? Death by hot air balloon? Cannon? Trident? — Christopher Fowler

Ultimately the men who choose against violence, against death, do so because they want to live fully and well, because they want to know love. These are the men who are true heroes, the men whose lives we need to know about, honor, and remember. — Bell Hooks

There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children. — Debby Boone

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh. — Hilary Mantel

Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison. — Zadie Smith

When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy. — Lauren Oliver

DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catcher in the Rye', that he needed those pages with him not only as an amulet to help him survive but as a reason to survive. — Shane Salerno

Be smart and take your pert little ass out the door and away from danger.
Pert little ass? Frowning, she looked behind herself. From what she could see, her ass - pert or otherwise - looked nonexistent thanks to the shape of her skirt. — Lori Foster

It's the latest popular song," declared the phonograph, speaking in a sulky tone of voice.
"A popular song?"
"Yes. One that the feeble-minded can remember the words of and those ignorant of music can whistle or sing. That makes a popular song popular, and the time is coming when it will take the place of all other songs. — L. Frank Baum

I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is. — Andre Ovredal

If we make a difference in Ohio, we can make a difference on a national scale. — Gordon Gee

Reading... a vacation for the mind.... — Dave Barry

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring. — Samantha Fox