Missives Obtained Quotes & Sayings

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath. — Quincy Jones

Marriage, [ ... ], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world. — Malcolm Bradbury

Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk ... You decide who they are, whether they live or die. It's the closest thing to feeling like a god that you can come to. — Gioconda Belli

If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet. — Mahatma Gandhi

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. — Judith Butler