Keudell Morrison Quotes & Sayings

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped. — John Edensor Littlewood

If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts. — Anne Enright

Osama bin Laden wanted to coax just the right response out of the United States by creating a situation in which the United States could not ignore him. His goal was to cross a threshold that Americans would deem intolerable (something bin Laden had failed to do with his previous attacks on the U.S. embassies in Africa or the USS Cole in Yemen), causing a massive attack to be launched on the Islamic world that used the most advanced and sophisticated methods available. Bin Laden was confident that if the U.S. plunged into the Islamic world, he would get the uprising he wanted. He had studied the Afghan war against the Soviets carefully. He felt he knew how to survive the initial American attack and, over time, defeat the Americans. But first, he needed the Americans to attack. — George Friedman

I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea. — James Cook

I was a hyper kid, so I didn't want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could go get the ball. — Shane Larkin

For some people the experience of crossing by carriage was positively terrifying. "You drive over to Suspension Bridge," wrote Mark Twain, "and divide your misery between the chances of smashing down two hundred feet into the river below, and the chances of having a railway-train overhead smashing down onto you. Either possibility is discomforting taken by itself, but, mixed together, they amount in the aggregate to positive unhappiness. — David McCullough

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.. — Oprah Winfrey

I can't be the only person in the world to have three different husbands, and yet those relationships are never talked about. — Jane Birkin

The American dream is under attack because our government has been hijacked by the Liberals in Washington DC. — Herman Cain

Simply put, he would have to keep her from finding out for he much preferred a willing Lady Gillian to a livid one. — Ginny Hartman

Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers ... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world. — Karl Barth

In 1957, I decided: write or perish. — James Salter

Pride and excess bring disaster for man. — Xun Zi

I feel you," he said, "whether stalking me through the streets of London, or hiding behind a screen in my library. — Kristen Callihan

Then go find another woman," she said flatly.
"I want you. Only you. The devil knows why," Sebastien glared at her. — Lisa Kleypas