Ohers Quotes & Sayings

The first to greet me was Robbie McNeill, who jumped up from his post at the helm and said, "Welcome aboard, Captain! I cannot tell you how happy I am to meet you!" His handsome Celtic face shone with mischief, and I felt the first gladdening of a spontaneous friendship. — Kate Mulgrew

I can make you feel, and I can scare you for real.

-Misty Lee — Misty Lee

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot. — Maggie Stiefvater

We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Who can adequately express his astonishment at the changes of fortune, and the mysterious vicissitudes in human affairs? — Stacy Schiff

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office. — Molly Ivins

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats. — Joseph Kosinski

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. — Lionel Trilling

Of all things, men most love to watch ohers face Death. It reminds them they yet live. — Joe Abercrombie

Did you enjoy yourself?' I asked.
'Mmm,' he said. 'It was fun, wasn't it?' He wasn't using a knife, but held a fork in his right hand like a child or an American. He smiled. — Gail Honeyman

This fifth and final sun will die,
Like every sun before
But for a moment we laughed in its light,
Like wind-blown petals
Sparkling near an exile's campfire
Before the flames take them. — David Bowles

Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose. — Laurie Alberts

This is definitely a playoff team. There's no question about that. It's just a matter of how much we want it. — Peter Bondra

For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not. — Mary Gaitskill

There are things I need to ask her. Not what happened, back then in the time I lost, because now I know that. I need to ask her why.
If she remembers. Perhaps she's forgotten the bad things, what she said to me, what she did. Or she does remember them, but in a minor way, as if remembering a game, or a single prank, a single trivial secret, of the kind girls tell and then forget.
She will have her own version. I am not the centre of her story, because she herself is that. But I could give her something you can never have, except from another person: what you look like from outside. A reflection. This is part of herself I could give back to her.
We are like the twins in old fables, each of whom has been given half a key. — Margaret Atwood