Lensed Fiber Quotes & Sayings

My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old. — Malcolm Gladwell

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. — Oliver Goldsmith

I am a very committed European. — Jose Manuel Barroso

They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh. — Shannon Hale

I couldn't believe that lack of fear. It gave me vertigo, as though he was the edge of a cliff and I
couldn't bear the view. — Alexis Hall

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance. — Carl Jung

Maybe my bravery was just a front and all my tough talk was just the bitter residue of a hundred burned bridges. Maybe it was closer to a thousand bridges crumbling at my feet with the ashes swirling around me, catching in my hair and coating my skin like chalk. — S.J. Wright

On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You've written words that only You and I can know. Their secret You promised to reveal one day but now I see You were only teasing. — Rumi

A small crowd had gathered to gaze at the astonishing display of color: vivid blues; regal purples; soft, candy-floss pinks; strawberry reds; vibrant lime greens; sun-bright, buttercup yellows; rich oranges; and creamy, vanilla whites. Tilly's eyes were unable to take it all in, her mouth unable to suppress a smile of sheer delight. It was as if someone had poured a box of paints onto this one street, leaving nothing with which to brighten up the drab gray of the rest of the city she had just passed. — Hazel Gaynor

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. — Enrique Jardiel Poncela