Metternich System Quotes & Sayings

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is in the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates.A book is a heart that beats in the chest of another. — Rebecca Solnit

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works. — Vince Gilligan

You just got sprung."
"Nig Rosewater out there?" Clete asked.
"Nig Rosewater hasn't been up at this hour since World War II. — James Lee Burke

The sun doesn't live in England; it comes here on holiday when we're all at work. — Benny Bellamacina

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely. — Frank McCourt

The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime. — Jonah Goldberg

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. — Nelson Mandela

Well, I'd rather choose to be beautiful, um, because, to be beautiful it's natural. But being smart you can learn ... you can learn, um, a lot of things ... a lot of things from the experience ... you can learn from a lot of things being smart. — Sarah Palin

Some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know. — Elyn R. Saks

All power is in essence power to deny mortality. — Ernest Becker

The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days! — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

Personally, I am obsessed with my mom, and I would do literally anything for her. — Alexa Von Tobel