Petitjean Bobbin Quotes & Sayings

Other generations faced big challenges: the Industrial Revolution with its sweeping social and economic changes; abolishing slavery; defeating fascism; establishing civil rights for all. The generations now alive must solve the 'money problem'. We must reclaim money from the speculators and restore it to its role as a medium for trade that serves us all. — John Rogers

In the middle of the night, I was startled awake by the sharp smell of tequila. My eyes snapped open. The heath bush I'd transplanted from an alley off Divisadero stretched its needled arms over my head. Between the new growth and glowing bell-shaped blossoms, I saw the outline of a man bend over and snap a stem of my helenium. His tequila bottle leaned over as he did, alcohol splashing out of the top and landing on the shrub concealing my body. A girl behind him reached for the bottle. She sat down on the ground with her back to me and tilted her face to the sky. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Praise the Lord! I can hear the Angels singing, he exhaled. — Cameo Renae

It's better to love a short ... — Martin Short

He is the complete opposite of her, or maybe just a completion of her. — Anna Banks

I know the names of the books - their old covers bleached to palest greens or pinks by the endless cycle of summers - lined up on the shelf. — Harriet Lane

In the darkness I thought of Fyodorovich, deep in the Kolyma taiga. It was the eleventh of October, and already, I imagined, the first light snows had dusted the area around Sunny Lake. I pictured the old man sitting alone in the sun by the lakeshore, smoking a Prima and gazing skyward as the last of the whooper swans flew south, squawking and trumpeting as they went. — Fen Montaigne

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas. — Emil Ruder

Do you know how some people can do anything?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost. — Maggie Stiefvater

I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that; I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time. — Elton John

Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they make themselves known, from their scars. - Chris Marker — Zeina Abirached

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures. — Christopher Hitchens

I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum. — Cory Booker