Lampstand Learning Quotes & Sayings

She was the most beautiful thing in my life and my mind had settled long ago that she always would be. I loved her so much I could barely wrap my mind around it. It was like the sun being the center of the universe, the planets all held captive around it, unable to break free of the pull and unable to sustain without its magnificence. She was my sun, the absolute center of my universe. — Kahlen Aymes

I can't imagine Hunger Games, even with its very popular books, being nearly a success that it's been without Jen Lawrence being the perfect person to play that role - a very modern celebrity, a very down-to-earth, accessible, celebrity. — Nina Jacobson

Better to have the magical arsenal and not need it, than to not have it and get killed to death. I — Jim Butcher

There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence. — William Howard Taft

I've learned, sometimes in very difficult situations, to operate confidently in paradox. — J. Michael Martinez

(Even Tucker's way of not living could be described as living, if you had a crush on him.) — Nick Hornby

The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. — George Orwell

I'm sorry, I'm a little busy. Can i ignore you later? — Russell Lynes

I finally know what to wish for."
Puzzled, she gazed down at him while the long locks of her hair trailed over his chest and shoulders. "What?"
"The wishing well," he reminded her.
"Oh, yes ... " Lottie lowered her face to his chest and nuzzled the soft fur, recalling that morning in the forest. "You wouldn't make a wish."
"Because I didn't know what I wanted. And now I do."
"What do you want?" she asked tenderly.
His hand slipped behind her head, pulling her mouth down to his. "To love you forever," he whispered just before their lips met.
-Nick & Lottie — Lisa Kleypas

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives. — Arianna Huffington

Straw shows which way the wind is blowing. — Aesop

You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing. — Richard M. Daley

Why do we so often find the flaws in people while they are here and finally see the good in them when they are gone? — Christine Edwards

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Boys often have permission to become men without the forfeiture of their desirability. And so these men write stories that grasp at girls who are ghosts twice over: first by being dead and second by being shallow shadows of actual girls, the assorted fragments of men's aging imaginations rather than the deep and dimensioned creatures that real girls are. — Alana Massey