Jesse Faden Quotes & Sayings

This was weird, civilized. Yes, I've come to rob you, sir. / How delightful; won't you have some tea before you do? — Kim Harrison

Digital clocks took the 'space' out of time. — Don DeLillo

As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job." — Joan Tewkesbury

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature. — Richard Brookhiser

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources. — Martin Van Creveld

Offerings for charity that Catholics from throughout the world sent to the Vatican were being used to plug up deficits created by a handful of Church officials who maneuvered the bureaucratic levers of the Holy See. — Gianluigi Nuzzi

My arithmetic is fine, thank you, Nicole snapped. Her arithmetic from what she'd seen was a damn sight better than that of any local without a counting board in front of him. The Romans, naturally enough, used and thought in terms of Roman numerals, and Roman numerals were to arithmetic what cruel and unusual punishment was to jurisprudence. — Judith Tarr

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans. — Robert Wagner

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster. — Ryan Lochte

... the way people understood things had a lot to do with the way people were, how they had been shaped, what the wanted; tricks of rhetoric would not shift them. — Ian McEwan