Readers Workshop From Debbie Miller Quotes & Sayings

When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding. — John Scott

You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona. — Robert Ballard

Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied. It is very natural in its methods withal, far more so than many fantastic enterprises and sentimental experiments, and hence its singular success. — Henry David Thoreau

Lipstick never lasted long when they were together; he would always kiss her after she had applied it, as if he liked the smearing viscous sensation. Sometimes she felt sure it was discomposing her that he enjoyed. — Sarah Hall

Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Was drug induced happy still happy? Was it the right kind of happy? Did it count? — Terri Cheney

To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent. — Stephen R. Covey

Don't worry. The best people all have some kind of scar. I thought of Marlee's hands and Maxon's back. They both held permanent marks of their bravery. I was honored to join them. — Kiera Cass

This is me. This is what I want. I could trade it all today, for this. Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever stepped into a place and just known that you were meant to be there? — K.A. Tucker

We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment. — Dalai Lama

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth. — Michael Eisner

Maybe life was just a series of phases - one phase after another after another. Maybe, in a couple of years, I'd be going through the same phase as the eighteen-year-old lifeguards. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Whoever said cotton panties aren't sexy hasn't seen Bright Side in a pair of them. — Kim Holden

I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire. — Pope John Paul I

Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. — Victor LaValle