Linstroths Valley Quotes & Sayings

Misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding, as success leads to more success. — Girdhar Joshi

I'm staying here tonight. I can bunk on the floor. (Nathan)
What if I say no? (Terri)
I'll just break in after you go to sleep and still bunk on the floor. (Nathan) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

To survive the Canadian winter, one needs a body of brass, eyes of glass, and blood made of brandy. — Louis Armand De Lom D'Arce Lahontan

I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it. — Nathaniel Rich

When you stop hoping you start settling. — Valorie Burton

The number of places in paradise is limited; only in hell is entry open to all. — Dmitry Glukhovsky

We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language. — Gary Chapman

Always I find when I begin to write there is one character who obstinately will not come alive ... He never does the unexpected thing, he never surprises me, he never takes charge. Every other character helps, he only hinders. And yet one cannot do without him. I can imagine a God feeling in just that way about some of us. The saints, one would suppose, in a sense create themselves. They come alive. They are capable of the surprising act or word. The stand outside the plot, unconditioned by it. But we have to be pushed around. We have the obstinancy of non-existence. We are inextricably bound to the plot, and wearily God forces us, here and there, according to his intention, characters without poetry, without free will, whose only importance is that somewhere, at some time, we help to furnish the scene in which a living character moves and speaks, perhaps the saints with the opportunities for their free will. — Graham Greene

Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How — Lesslie Newbigin

I believe it's the writer's job to tell society what it pretends it doesn't know. — Mona Eltahawy

Leigh [ Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo. — Boy George