Nicholas Watkins Quotes & Sayings

He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. "You're real. You're real." She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn't hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome. — Maya Banks

Humans: Nature's remedy for an otherwise good time. — J.R. Ward

His ability to evoke Celtic pride was incredible. He would always talk about how all the old players called him up after an embarrasing performance and wanted to disassociate themselves from the Celtics. They wanted to mail in their championship rings, wanted their numbers removed from the rafters, and by this point there would be tears rolling down our cheeks and we'd want to kill. — Bill Walton

I am afraid the greatest prison that people live in is the fear what other people think ... Grow up & lose the fear. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

First date, it's always fun to go somewhere or do something, like go see a band ... not make it too formal. — Behati Prinsloo

Building a strong future is living at the intersection of today and tomorrow: where living in the moment and who you have chosen to become dance together as one. — Bill Jensen

One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country. — Tom Brokaw

It seems that people are more comfortable with the private outrage about gay marriage, because when you are outraged about this issue, it requires no work. There's no work that you have to do when you're outraged about a gay couple. There is work that you have to do if you want to see black fathers raise their children. There is work that you have to do if you want to see a school develop. — Otis Moss III

They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged. — Zora Neale Hurston

[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism. In fact, in case after case, the opposite occurs: In the earthquake and fire of 1906, Jack London observed: "never, in all San Francisco's history, were her people so kind and courteous as on this night of terror." "We did not panic. We coped," a British psychiatrist recalled after the July 7, 2005, London subway bombings. We often assume that such humanity among survivors, what author Rebecca Solnit has called "a paradise built in hell," is an exception after catastrophes, specific to a particular culture or place. In fact, it is the rule. — Jonathan M. Katz

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it. — Matt Gonzalez

Oblivion is the place where all my best thoughts reside or I must say hide. — Shreya Gupta

I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials. — Washington Irving