Occurring Every Other Year Quotes & Sayings

All of it was ashes now: the smooth wood, the soft edges, the memory of his hands. — Lois Lowry

Incited. That was it, the guidingprinciple of her life in Copenhagen. She was incited to make an impression, a voluptous impression. She was incited to inflame attention and admiration. She was dressed for it, subtly schooled for it. And after a little while she gave herself up wholly to the fascinating business of being seen, gaped at, desired. — Nella Larsen

I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest in that and just started reading a lot. I didn't know what to read. I didn't have much direction outside of school. — John Brandon

It was a kiss made in lonely dreams. A kiss that took its time. A kiss that felt so right she couldn't remember all the reasons it was wrong. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. — Jimmy Swaggart

Let's put it to a vote. Shall the ballots be open or secret?"
"We don't need Soviet-style voting," Charushnikov said, offended. "Let's vote the honest way, the European way: secret ballots. — Ilya Ilf

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life. — Thomas Merton

As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn't deserve what happened tonight. — Nonito Donaire

I'll do whatever you say, Cassie," he says helplessly. His eyes shine brighter than the stars overhead. "I understand why you have to go. If it were you inside that camp, I would go. A hundred thousand Silencers couldn't stop me."
He presses his lips against my ear and whispers low and fierce, as if he's sharing the most important secret in the world, which maybe he is.
"It's hopeless. And it's stupid. It's suicidal. But love is a weapon they have no answer for. They know how you think, but they can't know what you feel."
Not we. They.
A threshold has been crossed, and he isn't stupid. He knows it's the kind you can't cross back over. — Rick Yancey

Attacking genius and passion as immoral , the ? cries "how dare they?" and answers with its own question ... — Christopher Dutton

I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at. — Jay Watson

You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand. — Mark Miller

Human beings are curious by nature. — Aristotle.

Scientists say, 'There is no such thing as time; gravity is a dust from another universe, and outside our own universe are many, many universes in all directions.' They speculate that attached to these universes are probably 6,000 planets identical to Earth. So are there things living out there? Animals, people, anything? — James Rosenquist