Lx100 Review Quotes & Sayings

I was too ashamed and afraid to confide in friends, and wanted to convince others and myself that my marriage was a success. I lost myself in my writing. Finding ways for my characters to overcome their problems and make their relationships work helped plaster over the wound caused by my inability to make things right at home. — Penny Jordan

Amazon is winning the ebook revolution, but it may lose the war. — Jason Merkoski

He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. — Khalil Gibran

This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good. — John D. MacDonald

Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones who bought me Steve Martin records and let me watch R-rated comedies long before they probably should have. — Chris Hardwick

Literacy in itself is no education. — Mahatma Gandhi

No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes along, without going snivelling to God about sin, my own or other people's. How would it profit a man if he got into a tight place, to call he people who put him there miserable sinners? Or himself a miserable sinner? I disliked the levelling aspect of this sinnerdom, it was like a cricket match played in a drizzle, where everybody had an excuse - and what a dull excuse! - for playing badly. Life was meant to test a man, bring out his courage, initiative, resource; and I longed, I thought, to be tested: I didn't want to fall on my knees and call myself a miserable sinner.
But the idea of goodness did attract me, for I did not regard it as the opposite of sin. I saw it as something bright and positive and sustaining, like the sunshine, something to be adored, but from afar. — L.P. Hartley

We like it wet and we like it green, and we are the ones that they call obscene. — Sai Marie Johnson

Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men. — Benjamin Franklin

The diet industry has a deep interest in the failure of dieters
if everyone got skinny, they'd go out of business. — Golda Poretsky

A queen who wouldn't take risks for her people wasn't worthy of being a queen at all. — Jodi Meadows

I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her. — James Lusarde