Radbournes Quotes & Sayings

China has consistently surprised us. When I returned from the United States many years ago, it was unimaginable that we would end up where we are now. What China has achieved defies all logic. I credit this to the hard work and enterprising spirit of the Chinese people. — Zhang Xin

I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them. — Veronica Roth

It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel. — Tony Judt

We don't talk about that. We don't talk about the fact that we can never hang out at Elody's house after five o'clock because her mother will be home, and drunk. We don't talk about the fact that Ally never eats more than a quarter of what's on her plate, even though she's obsessed with cooking and watches the Food Network for hours on end. — Lauren Oliver

The story is nothing like what you first thought it would be. But so what? It's better - richer, deeper, truer - than the original idea. The idea did its work: it got you thinking. After that, if you feel bound to stick to it no matter what, that idea becomes a ball and chain that you drag with you through the whole process. — Orson Scott Card

'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that. — Twyla Tharp

before dawn I rose thirsty and cold
watching the east I knew
there were other moments everywhere
thirsty without me- — Lance Henson

Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough. — Lisa Scottoline

You know," he says, "for someone who doesn't like touching people, you keep finding ways to put your hands on me. — Victoria Schwab

A new person in your life gives the rest of you a chance to be new, too. Your life can be whatever you want it to, from there on out. I leaned in and kissed and that is who I was to him, not shy, but bold. Not inhibited, but brave. I was that to him and so I kept being that. It was what I thought he wanted and what he was attracted to, and yet it was this, this exact thing I wasn't even really, that made him the most insecure. — Deb Caletti

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left. — William Mathews

Some days seem like the end of your life but then they aren't and you still have to figure out how to wake up again. — Jillian Lauren