Lirio Quotes & Sayings

How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think. — Barry Schwartz

Okay, is anyone else worried that some of the fruit didn't fall far enough away from the tree? — Brian K. Vaughan

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye. — Charlotte Bronte

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning. — Bill Gates

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one. — Lloyd Alexander

I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense. — Niels Arden Oplev

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before. — Janis Ian

Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction. — Georgia Heard

I would like very much to see the American people saying to our Republican colleagues and some Democratic colleagues: Excuse me. Don't force my kids to have a lower standard of living in order to give tax breaks to the richest people. What the President and all of us should be doing is going out and saying to those people: Call the Members of the Senate, call the Members of the House and say: Excuse me. How about representing the middle class and working families, for a change, rather than the wealthiest people. That is what democracy is about. — Bernie Sanders

The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all that is transmissible from its beginning, ranging from its substantive duration to its testimony to the history which it has experienced. Since the historical testimony rests on the authenticity, the former, too, is jeopardized by reproduction when substantive duration ceases to matter. And what is really jeopardized when the historical testimony is affected is the authority of the object.3 — Walter Benjamin

I agree," Arin said, "under one condition. You mentioned emissaries. There will be one emissary from the empire. It will be you. — Marie Rutkoski

Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it.
Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?'
A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.'
You enjoy this duty?'
He nodded.
I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here. — Roger Zelazny

I am not a lovelorn little girl, constantly searching for her fairy story. — Heather Lyons

One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it. — Michael Jackson

I enjoy the company of prostitutes for the following reasons: It represses women, it's generally illegal. — Dan Maffei