Remanufactured Quotes & Sayings

He took a step toward her, than another, tentatively, gathering all his strength, as though about to throw a heavy switch that would, if his calculations were correct, bring light to a hundred cities and ten thousand darkened rooms. He was going to ask her to dance - that was all. — Michael Chabon

I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy. — Glenn Hubbard

I write because I am poorly adjusted to reality. ("The Writer's Kitchen") — Rosario Ferre

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block. — Richard Powers

The more violent the storm the sooner it is over. — Seneca The Younger

As long as there is a lottery, we the people of the United States must believe in getting something for nothing. — Fay Faron

Even more amazing than the wonders of Nature are the powers of the spirit. — Helen Keller

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. — David Lloyd George

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love. — Mahatma Gandhi

Somewhere, years ago, she had stepped off the path of life and could no longer find her way back to the family of people. — Colson Whitehead

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing. — Bette Midler

The world has nothing to offer me, no single shred of interest. I'm a woman trapped on a balcony, watching a passing parade, a blur of noise and motion that eventually turns to a single point on the horizon, a gutter full of trampled and muddy cups, and the sense of wasting an afternoon. — Lauren Oliver