Laura Isles Quotes & Sayings

I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a wood, when it fell over dead, apparently from sheer temper, because I dared to approach it. It defied me first, and then died. I have never forgotten the horror and shame I experienced when that soft fluffy thing (towards which I had nothing but the most humanitarian motives) fell dead from rage at my feet. — Vita Sackville-West

A man can break God's laws and be forgiven. That's what they teach us. But when he breaks Nature's laws, there's no forgiveness - and there's no escape. Sooner or later he pays the penalty, or his children pay it - or his children's children. It doesn't matter much. It must be paid. — Martha Ostenso

I'm a compulsive everything. — Mike Birbiglia

All an investor can do is follow a consistently disciplined and rigorous approach; over time the returns will come — Seth Klarman

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith. — Garth Brooks

Everything has changed. The instant the car slid across the wet tarmac, my whole life changed. I can see everything clearly, as though I am standing on the sidelines. I can't go on like this. — Clare Mackintosh

Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that. — Chuck Palahniuk

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct. — Renny Harlin

You're being kind of melodramatic. — Richelle Mead