Lone Survivor Matthew Axelson Quotes & Sayings

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster. — Roger Rosenblatt

You are, without doubt, holding in your hands one of the best-introduced books in the English language. We hope you enjoy the Introduction to the New Edition that follows this Introduction to it and continue to read on even into the book itself. — Douglas Adams

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep. — David Bowie

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is. — Marcia Gay Harden

Flowers are an education in a vase. — Robert Genn

The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize — Frances Bean Cobain

No one can fill those of your needs that you won't let show. — Bill Withers

To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and that any small discrepancy with that counterpart is a simple error on the author's part. Consequently, they are totally at a loss if anything essential is altered. Make Abraham Lincoln a dentist, put the Gettysburg Address on his tongue, and nobody will recognize it. — Louis Auchincloss

We don't want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. — Sinclair Lewis

My husband and I have together created three children, but we have separate finances, and that's the way I like it. — Anna Quindlen

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way. — Henry Ward Beecher

And wordlessly opened the small chest of drawers was filled with pure white clothes. — Elizabeth Hunter