Pleasureislandoflights Quotes & Sayings

I'm going to marry that boy someday. Not tomorrow, not next year, but someday. He's my forever. "It's about time," he says as I climb into the — Lisa De Jong

The English major is, first of all, a reader. She's got a book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a day; her Kindle glows softly late into the night. But there are readers and there are readers. There are people who read to anesthetize themselves - they read to induce a vivid, continuous, and risk-free daydream. They read for the same reason that people grab a glass of chardonnay - to put a light buzz on. The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough. He reads not to see the world through the eyes of other people but effectively to become other people. What is it like to be John Milton, Jane Austen, Chinua Achebe? What is it like to be them at their best, at the top of their games? — Mark Edmundson

Marry me, Red, please. I swear I'll make you happy." ~ Ken ~ — Rodier

The fans here, they've been unbelievable. You've got to play hard for them. — Hanley Ramirez

With a brain working and a body working one could keep step with the crowd and never be found out for the hollow machine, lacking the essential thing, that one was conscious of being. — Virginia Woolf

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do. — Robert Genn

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific. — Daisaku Ikeda

Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender. — Hope Edelman

I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes. — Julian Sands

D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers. — Alexandre Dumas

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world - one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true. — J.C. Ryle

People wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't imagine themselves not existing. — John Green