Madirasi Quotes & Sayings

It's the federal government's job to secure the border. — Carly Fiorina

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it. — Orhan Pamuk

[about a book lent by a crush]
Last night I read into the wee small hours. Fell asleep with my face in the book, my nose pressed up against the print. Could smell Sean on the pages, the lingering odours from his sportsbag. Man scent, liniment, damp earth. — Bob Condron

Like a flame breaking the boundaries to survive underwater, we, too, are something beautiful. We are a substance of our own design. We're more than water. We're more than fire. We're a miracle, a living and breathing combination, with no formula to define us. — Renee Ericson

The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders. — Samuel Johnson

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots. — H.P. Lovecraft

I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast). — Violet Duke

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. — Maya Lin

This business of earning your daily bread is really sad and wearisome. People come up with the most pious lies about work. It's just another abominable form of idolatry, a dog licking the rod that beats it: work. — Luther Blissett

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. — Blaise Pascal

Some far day when she had become a better person and could feel something besides stinging anger that her beautiful, gentle sister had not protected herself more carefully against a world of threat. — Charles Frazier

Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light — David Archuleta

Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. — Rumi

Do they expect us to have sex right here on the kitchen table?"
Gunner, who was chewing a piece of toast, paused, considered the idea, and then shook his head. "Too messy. We'd get sugar everywhere. Plus, Cressy might walk in, and then I'd have to get her a second horse. — Katie MacAlister

The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on. — Opal Whiteley