Pagelspan Quotes & Sayings

How long, oh Lord, how long? And how much longer will we have to wait before some high-powered shark with a fistful of answers will finally bring us face-to-face with the ugly question that is already so close to the surface in this country, that sooner or later even politicians will have to cope with it? — Hunter S. Thompson

She experienced a moment of genuine happiness that rocked her and made her quake at the intensity of the feeling. She had a sense of being on the threshold of an entirely new purpose with a vastly different perspective. She — S.K. Epperson

Average household credit card debt topped the landmark of $10,000 in 2006, a hundredfold increase over the average consumer debt in the 1960s. One consequence: Much of the material buried in landfills in recent years was bought with those same credit cards, leading to the quintessentially American practice of consumers continuing to pay, sometimes for years, for purchases after they become trash. — Edward Humes

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. — J.M. Barrie

I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.' — Jean Craighead George

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers. — Narendra Modi

Will you walk into my parlour? said the Spider to the Fly — Mary Howitt