Preannounced Quotes & Sayings

Once more Jane sat staring at the telephone. This time she was filled with a confidence that was new to her. Stan Crandall. Stanley Crandall. He liked her! He had seen her once, and even though had been rumpled and grass-stained and having a terrible time with Sandra, he liked her well enough to go to the trouble of finding out her name and calling to ask her to go to the movies. Jane smiled at the telephone and gave a sigh of happiness — Beverly Cleary

Well hit a broken dream can become even more beautiful and solid. So much to shatter the limits of reality. — Mathias Malzieu

I wouldn't be with a man who was scared of me, but I don't think men are scared of me - look at me, I'm tiny. I don't think I'm capable of putting anyone off. I'm a nice girl. — Amy Winehouse

When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible to experience an instant sense of freedom and privacy is anywhere you open up a good book and begin to read. When we read silently, we are alone with our own thoughts and one other voice. We can take our time, consider, evaluate, and digest what we read - with no commercial interruptions, no emotional music or special effects manipulation. And in spite of the advances in electronic information exchange, the book is still the most important medium for presenting ideas of substance and value, still the only real home of literature. — Andrew Clements

You become what you think. You are what you eat. — Barbara Cartland

There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed. — Stephen Vincent Benet

It's much more fun to be ugly. — Robert Carlyle

Artists, like criminals, are dependent on a jury. — Glenn Haybittle

The teeth of the dreadly viper is still sticking into me!' he yelled. 'I is feeling the teeth sticking into my anklet! — Roald Dahl

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca