Lashbrook Cia Quotes & Sayings

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence. — David Almond

The centuries will burn rich loads
With which we groaned,
Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids,
While songs are crooned:
But they will not dream of us poor lads,
Left in the ground. — Wilfred Owen

When faced with your imminent death, the wise man reaches into the depths of his soul, grabs his sword, and does what is proper. The gods have a way of treating you like a two-penny whore on payday, but at least you might face the experience with the faintest bit of dignity. — Terry Mancour

Love wasn't a piece of music you could play over and over again with different interpretations. It actually needed to be improvised as you went along. — Tobsha Learner

In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, "Why aren't we killing people yet?" And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a "forceful response," "decisive action" ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms. — Jonah Goldberg

There's a lot of Doyle in me. I don't know where I begin and Doyle ends or where Doyle begins and I end. — Glenn Quinn

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. — Thomas Paine

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! — Robert Browning

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts? — Mahatma Gandhi