Lisakook Quotes & Sayings

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables. — John Berger

The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers. — Andreas Schleicher

And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life. — Julie Benz

We are our brothers keeper. Its going to be up to all of us. — Paula Deen

I would read anything. Absolutely anything. I loved being transported somewhere else, even back in time. — Samantha Young

...they were all, if the truth was only known, a little bit off in their heads. What possible reason could a sane person have for wanting to not enjoy himself any more? — Flannery O'Connor

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone. — Wade Boggs

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something. — Peter Gould

The bullet clicks into the chamber. — Veronica Roth

A hobo walks by in a suit made of today's newspaper. A guy chases him, shouting. "Wait! I haven't read the business section yet!"
Oh, the economic news. The most honest, trustworthy, freshest goods you can get - apart from ripe fish. With its gorgeous headlines it shakes out the mirror's lost reflections: The fountains are lobbying for more water in this pyromaniac city. Buses with electric chairs are running through the streets. Passengers ask for tickets to Heaven, then take their seats. Eyeballs jump out of their smoking skulls. "No littering in the vehicle!" growls the driver, adjusting the hat on his horns. — Zoltan Komor

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. — Phil Knight

In a perfect world, you would be able to hold onto everyone. But It's not realistic. The changes with NYPD have been progressive and have taken the show to new levels. — Dennis Franz

It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the existing fortunes appear as privileges for which there is no justification. Policy is then certain to aim at taking these fortunes out of private hands, either by the slow process of heavy taxation of inheritance or by the quicker one of outright confiscation. A system based on private property and control of the means of production presupposes that such property and control can be acquired by any successful man. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

I got an agent when I was 16 up in Vancouver, Canada. — Jessica Lowndes