Mnacep Quotes & Sayings

As a child I'd longed for Thomas Stone or at least the idea of him. So many mornings I waited for him at the gates of Missing. I saw that vigil now as necessary, a prerequisite for my insides to harden and cure just like the willow of a cricket bat must cure to be ready for a lifetime of knocks. That was the lesson at Missing's gates: the world does not owe you and neither does your father. — Abraham Verghese

There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children. — Eric Schlosser

I was rather fond of her, but I was even fonder of my vices, my mania for running away from everywhere in search of God knows what, driven, I suppose, by stupid pride, by a sense of some sort of superiority — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying! — Wendelin Van Draanen

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there. — Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

He who is not getting better is getting worse. — Ignatius Of Loyola

When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy? — Charles Benoit

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody. — Daniel Craig

Research is about following the gleam into the dark. It's also about being sensitive enough to know which fact is "the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders," as opposed to the fact that deadens and kills a delicate new project. — Lauren Groff

Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths. — Hilary Mantel