Populuxe Books Quotes & Sayings

The last time Assistant Principal Parker called, a girl in the school's locker room had accused Julie of being a whore during the two years she'd spent on the street. My kid took exception to that and decided to communicate that by applying a chair to the offending party's head. I'd told her to go for the gut next time- it left less evidence. — Ilona Andrews

He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood. — Graham Greene

The love of the family, the love of one person, can heal. It heals the scars left by society. A massive, powerful society. — Maya Angelou

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy. — John Landgraf

Thomas Merton wrote, "it is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not 'what he ought to be.' If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we will do away with him altogether."50 — Eugene H. Peterson

life seems to shorten itself, and all of a sudden — Cherie Burns

Goin' to the altar. I mean, do ya feel different, or anything?" "Well, it ain't the goin' to the altar," said Willie. I had the feelin' that he was repeatin' what the preacher had said. "It's the prayin' thet makes the difference, — Janette Oke

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now. — Jane Wagner

Currency peg can mean higher volatility in short-term interest rates, as the central bank seeks to keep the price of its money steady in terms of the peg. It can mean deflation, if the supply of the peg is constrained (as the supply of gold was relative to the demand for it in the 1870s and 1880s). — Niall Ferguson

I felt the fangs against my neck and knew I was going to die. It was horrible. I wanted to live so, so badly...but this was how it would end. With my last moments, I started to yell at Christian to run, but then the Strigoi above my suddenly lit up like a torch. He jerked back, and I rolled out from underneath him.
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I turned to Christian, who was crouched on the ground.
"Wow," I said, helping him up. Obviously, he was the one who had saved me.
"No shit," he said. "Didn't know I had that much power. — Richelle Mead

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves. — Graciela Iturbide

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, In ruling people . — Diogenes

Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity. — Matt Ridley

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly. — Robert Kennedy

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer. — Joe DiMaggio