Newsprints Book Quotes & Sayings

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it. — Gregory Bateson

one-armed bro-hugs, — Stephenie Meyer

Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others. — Yotam Ottolenghi

E. L. Doctorow once said that "writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice about writing, or life, I have ever heard. — Anne Lamott

All the people I hung out with were musicians. — Hunter Hayes

The doctor who willingly accepts destroying life will have no grounds on which to object if the state should compel that doctor to destroy life, — Mildred Fay Jefferson

Act as if you are, and you will become such. — Leo Tolstoy

He was a vegetarian, and never ate at any meal more than a few herbs and green vegetables. Then — Dennis Kincaid

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed. — Malcolm X

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. — Wendell Berry

Home was a condominium on the fifteenth floor of a high-rise, a sort of filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. — Chuck Palahniuk

In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia. — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

She simply does what her daughter tells her to, and finds a surprising relief in it. Maybe, she thinks, one could begin dying into this: the ministrations of a grown daughter, the comforts of a room. Here, then, is age. Here are the little consolations, the lamp and the book. Here is the world, increasingly managed by people who are not you; who will do either well or badly; who do not look at you when they pass you in the street. — Michael Cunningham