Raamatukogubuss Quotes & Sayings

Districts 7 and 11 as well. If my hunches are right, this would mean almost half the districts have at least attempted to rebel. Do — Suzanne Collins

The age of great men, when a single mind of intelligence and vision might change the destiny of the world, was long gone. — Helen Simonson

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. — Arthur Miller

Some degree of prostitution will probably always be with us, but we need not acquiesce to widespread sexual slavery. — Nicholas D. Kristof

As one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself. — Lillian Hellman

Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything. — Tina Fey

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race. — Umberto Eco

from any anatomical disgust — James Rollins

E began drinking heavily and lived in a way which a friend described as making sense "only if he had no expectations of being alive much beyond Thursday". — P.D. James

It stunned me. I had never said it before. I knew that I would never say it again, not really; that you only get one shot at in a lifetime. I got mine out of nowhere on a misty autumn evening, under a street lamp shining yellow streaks on the wet pavement, with Rosie's strong pliable fingers woven through mine. — Tana French

My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was compelled to bite strangers, a freakishly big double-pawed tomcat who regularly left dead rabbits on the front doorstep, and 70 white mice that one or another of us had smuggled home from my father's research laboratory. — Rosemary Mahoney

The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve. — Lauren Tarshis

My father was a doctor,' she says, 'a very kind man. He died in the early '70s, relatively young.' She taps the cigarette packet on the table. 'Of lung cancer.'
'Oh.'
'But the thing about that is,' she says as she exhales, 'it doesn't take very long at all. — Anna Funder