Purser And Glenn Quotes & Sayings

I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me ... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it. — Malorie Blackman

No matter how many times the world had attempted to show me how special I was, I had always remained sure that it was all a hoax, that I really wasn't special after all. That I had nothing to offer. — Patrick Carman

To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who were just funny, and that's fine, too. But that's never been what I was trying to do in comedy. I was always trying to do something that involved not pandering to the audience. — Bill Maher

If you do not like Real Estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it. — Robert Kiyosaki

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class. — John Rawls

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth. — Herodotus

'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do. — Colson Whitehead

And it seems people should not build houses anymore
it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors
under electric lights
without shades;
it seems there is a lot to forget
and a lot not to do
and in drugstores, markets, bars,
the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night
and look through this house and the house does not want to be built — Charles Bukowski

...the past shooting out at me like sparrows for the hedgerow, startling and inescapable. — Paula Hawkins

Although their maneuverability is limited, blind flies can fly remarkably well. — Michael Dickinson