Ltrain Stops Quotes & Sayings

I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up. — Gayle Forman

The Lion said nothing and Digory knew that he had not told enough. — C.S. Lewis

It's so hard to fight against someone who is stuck in what they believe whether you agree with it or not. — Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

[ ... ] a given text may seem fictional or actual depending on the context in which we encounter it. The same is true for oral performances. [Thomas] Pavel takes the example of a theatrical scene wherein an actor mimics the gestures of a priest and pretends to bless the audience. There is nothing effective about this blessing in most contexts, but it can become effective in certain circumstances: imagine, for example, a dictatorship in which religion is banned and in which a theater audience, having kept the old faith, experiences the actor's gesture as authentic, transforming this fictional scene in a scene of real life. — Pierre Bayard

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. — Peter Ustinov

There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances. — Heber C. Kimball

Who are these bloggers? They're not trained editors at Vogue magazine. There are bloggers writing recipes that aren't tested that aren't necessarily very good, or are copies of what really good editors have created and done. Bloggers create a kind of a popularity but they are not the experts. We have to understand that. — Martha Stewart

When I'm directing or producing, I like to do different kinds of stories. But you have to know what you really like, and when you do, you have to front your position. — Danny DeVito

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. — James Nicoll

Gabe prayed for the strength not to strangle his future father-in-law for the fiftieth time. — Melanie Dickerson

It would just be like a movie makeover montage, pop music scoring the ugly girl's transformation from bespectacled duckling to cheerleader swan. — Leila Sales

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom. — Charles Gilchrist Adams

Motion is the sign of life. — Swami Vivekananda

So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?"

"Yes, naturally. — Jean-Paul Sartre

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years. — Alex North