Peggies Place Quotes & Sayings

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author. — Jonathan Dee

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts. — Vinoba Bhave

My heart does not desire what my eyes does not admire. — Habeeb Akande

Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much. — James Siegel

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity. — Samuel Johnson

Lords and ladies who walk unseen, lords and ladies all in green, three times I stamp upon the earth..." Hazel hesitated and then gave the only reason she could think of why the Folk might grant her entry to their revel."Let me in for the sake of mirth. — Holly Black

We were not only poor and hungry. We had to feed unwanted insects with our blood! — Elena Acevedo

Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it — Richard Branson

I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either. — Gabriel Basso

I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation ... the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68] — Julian Barnes

When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected. — Benjamin Franklin

Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful. — Harold Bloom

My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together. — Estelle