Praeger Books Quotes & Sayings

Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder for small businesses to hire. In short, it's a train wreck. — John Boehner

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute. — Howard Hodgkin

I think I also don't confess because I am still so unbelieving of what happened. I am still aghast. I stun myself each time I retell the truth to myself, let alone to someone else. So I am evasive in order to spare myself ... I can see though that my secrecy does me no favors. It probably makes worse my sense of being outlandish. It confirms to me that it might be abhorrent, my story, or that few can relate to it. — Sonali Deraniyagala

I burned down our house, and that put a strain on our family. — Reese Hoffa

I think making a good film shot is joyful. — William Shatner

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied. — Paula McLain

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. — Geoffrey Chaucer

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker. — Alan Dershowitz

The gift is for you ... The surprise is for me. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. While a cruder name for this process is lying , one could make a case that delusion is a variant of generosity. After all, you practiced rounding up on Kevin from the day he was born.

Me, I'm a stickler. I prefer my photographs in focus. At the risk of tautology, I like people only as much as I like them. I lead an emotional life of such arithmetic precision, carried to two or three digits after the decimal, that I am even willing to allow for degrees of agreeableness in my own son. In other words, Franklin: I leave the $17. — Lionel Shriver

I thought creators were supposed to tell their younglings they were special. I didn't know mine meant something more when she told me. I could've never known what she'd seen in the water. My future was a secret she kept bound up inside her. — K.P. Ambroziak

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that. — Kip Winger

How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. — Robert Browning