Page 79 Quotes & Sayings

I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book. — Jeff Kinney

The world is governed by opinion. — William Ellery Channing

Bishop's brows went up. "Okay, fine. Yes, I followed you here. Better?"
"Yes. Stalkery, but better."
"I'm not stalking you."
"Spoken like a true stalker."
Bishop and Samantha, page 79 — Michelle Rowen

When we fall in love and we have a first kiss with someone, we never ever imagine that someday that could be a last kiss. — Taylor Swift

Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. (Page 79.) — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

It is not possible to rent a beach house within five hours' drive of one's hometown without being visited by people. This is especially true if I have actually invited them. One of my problems is that I like to be nicer than I actually am. — Mary-Lou Weisman

I don't understand,' said Despereaux.
'And you will not understand until you lose what you love ... — Kate DiCamillo

Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart. — Pat Conroy

If I'm very drunk, I can improvise. But generally speaking, no. Generally speaking, almost all of my work is material that was first done on the printed page. And the shorter ones that you might call poems, I had a stretch from '79, '80, for five or six years, where I wrote a lot of poetry as such. Simply because I was asked to. — Richard Meltzer

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it. — Alan Lightman

Writing is a gift to both the writer and the reader. — Cheryl Alleway

There was no need to remind Roosevelt who controlled the senate. "I persistently refused to lose my temper," he recalled. "I merely explained good-humoredly that I had made up my mind." Though he steadfastly refused — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I am not going to live, and I can choose to be as much for her as I can be, to burn as brightly for her as I wish, and for a shorter time, than to burden her with someone only half-alive for a longer time. It is my choice, William, and you cannot make it for me. — Cassandra Clare

1. "...All the complicated things in life can be settled over a cup of coffee. A person will tell more of their private life after one good cup of coffee, than after a magnum of Champagne or a quarter of port.." ((page 79)).

2. "..Care for the needy,comfort the distressed, befriend the rejected.." ((Simon's Testimony..page 464..))

3."..The man Jesus said that was wrong and offered the sick the courage to become well, the weak the ability to grow a strong spirit, and nonbelievers the chance to believe.." ((Simon's Testimony..page 461)) — Steve Berry

If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is. — Jack Butler Yeats

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. — Edith Hamilton

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world. — Julia Roberts

There are some things in life that we are meant to experience. Circumstances will always shift us back to certain situations until we walk through it and learn something."- Aimee (Marked Book #1) page 79 — A.N. Meade

I have tried to teach you the wonders of the spiritual world ...
... I have tried to show how we mortals can attain such wisdom ...
... and I've decided you're a pillock.
[click on the thumbnail, art by Andrew Christine] — Roger Kettle

A screaming comes across the sky. — Thomas Pynchon

We have the power to chose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. — Jill Bolte Taylor

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth. — Kenneth R. Miller