Nightwood Sparknotes Quotes & Sayings

I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz. — Richard Corliss

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships. — Haskell Wexler

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales. — Michael A. Stackpole

I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing poles in all
directions ... — Julio Cortazar

Jemima was not pretty, the flatness and shortness of her face made her almost plain; yet most people looked twice at her expressive countenance, at the eyes which flamed or melted at every trifle, at the rich colour which came at every expressed emotion into her usually sallow face, at the faultless teeth which made her smile like a sunbeam. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others. — Tom Krause