Oarlocks For Sale Quotes & Sayings

A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as life. It's as detailed as life. It requires you, the reader, to fill in an outline of words with vivid pictures drawn subconsciously from your own life, so that the story feels more personal than the sets designed by someone else and handed over via TV or movies. Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up. It's why you might find yourself crying, even if you aren't the crying kind. — Barbara Kingsolver

Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving. — Pat Robertson

I competed in a test round of 'Kitchen Casino.' I feel like it's good to know what the competitors are going through. — Bill Rancic

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old. — George Orwell

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits. — Glen Duncan

Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it! — Amit Chatterjee

Being Christian without the Church doesn't make sense. That's why the great Paul VI, said that the most absurd dichotomy is loving Christ without the Church. To listen to Christ, but not the Church. To be with Christ, but stay at the margins of the Church. It's not possible. It's an absurd dichotomy. — Pope Francis

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him. — Mao Zedong

I don't really remember what computer screens looked like, — Emily St. John Mandel

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind. — Ramana Maharshi

When do we get to the part where I get inspired by this wonder boy and my seriously bitchy attitude toward men is miraculously healed? — H. Raven Rose