Mcclatchy Newspaper Quotes & Sayings

Students out of bed! Students in the corridors!" "They're supposed to be, you blithering idiot! — J.K. Rowling

As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much nearer being right than others. — C.S. Lewis

Never, ever, take a "no" from someone who's not empowered to give you a "yes" in the first place. — Peter Greenberg

You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' — Anne Tyler

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses ... unless you prefer to die. — David Levithan

But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn't yet, or used to be Human once and isn't now, or ought to be Human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet. — C.S. Lewis

I sing the song in my heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Imagination is no Joke, But a Wish — Jan Jansen

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush. — Ram Dass

The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which he aroused in most people. And so, for the first time, they could see him as he was: a man totally innocent of fear. The fear of which they thought was not the normal kind, not a response to a tangible danger, but the chronic, unconfessed fear in which they all lived. They remembered the misery of the moments when, in loneliness, a man thinks of the bright words he could have said, but had not found, and hates those who robbed him of his courage. The misery of knowing how strong and able one is in one's own mind, the radiant picture never to be made real. Dreams? Self-delusion? Or a murdered reality, unborn, killed by that corroding emotion without name - fear - need - dependence - hatred? — Ayn Rand

That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble. — Cyrus Broacha

Fucking kiss me already, Square," she whispered against my lips.

My eyes snapped open. This girl was so the shit. And she was all mine. — Christina Lee

Insincerity had never come easily to her, but good manners required it on occasion, even if a superhuman effort was needed. — Alexander McCall Smith

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't. — Ice-T