Nanci Donnellan Quotes & Sayings

We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book. — Jonathan Sumption

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself. — Terence Stamp

Autumn brings the falling of leaves and cool days. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Norway has a relationship with the EU which is very close. It has to accept most EU rules. It has to pay EU membership fees. It has free movement of people just like other EU countries, but it's not actually in the EU. — Tim Harford

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it. — Mary Ann Shaffer

Memory is this, not the target dead on center
but the hurt unwept. — Carlos A. Angeles

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works. — Laurie Graham

You can't ride a book," Phillip said with a shrug. "A book won't nuzzle you. It doesn't have a soul or a personality." The teacher's scowl eased into a small smile. "There we must disagree. — Iscah

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong. — Alice Hoffman

For that matter I didn't understand Civil War reenactments. Why would you celebrate the biggest thing you ever lost? I quickly learned not to give voice to such skepticisms, and when asked if I was a Yankee I said I didn't follow baseball closely. That usually shut the person up. — Patricia Cornwell

When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store. — Lukas Foss

I love people so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes. — John Steinbeck

Lots of people have hobbies. some people collect old coins or foreign stamps, some do needlework, others spend most of their spare time on a particular sport. — Jostein Gaarder

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings ... — H.L. Mencken

We express our art in everything we say, everything we feel, and everything we do. The creation is ongoing, it is endless, it is happening in every moment. — Miguel Angel Ruiz