Lobbies Or Lobbys Quotes & Sayings

In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading. — Elizabeth Berg

Civilisation is a conspiracy. — John Buchan

Love me in actions, not in words. — Dee Dee M. Scott

I like the slants of light; I'm a collector. — Annie Dillard

When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned. — David W. Earle

At the moment everything was being destroyed she had created that which was most difficult: she had not drawn something out of nothing (a meaningless act), but given to nothing, in its form of nothing, the form of something. — Maurice Blanchot

Why did every human concern clog itself up in a tangle of routines, formalities, disciplines, imperatives? Why couldn't one be free? Really free? Guarding one's freedom, wasn't freedom at all. Why couldn't one win one's freedom for good and all, and get on with life? — H.G.Wells

With the danger of terrorism and war spreading in the world, now is the right moment to stop and reconsider our actions and do everything possible to bring an end to the fighting, be it in your own homeland, neighboring countries, or in your region. — Dalia Grybauskaite

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness. — George Eliot

We like long-form narrative journalism, and we feel there aren't enough high-profile outlets in Canada running the kind of stories we want to showcase - long, meaty, thoughtful, investigative. — Lynn Coady

I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels. — J.L. Austin

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me. — Albert Finney

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. — Bertrand Russell

I ask myself how other people see me, and I hope they see me from way far away. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself. — D.H. Lawrence