Rollemberg Quotes & Sayings

And when she thinks of that generation of silent men, the boys who lived through the Depression and grew up to become soldiers or not-soldiers in the war, she doesn't blame them for refusing to talk, for not wanting to go back into the past, but how curious it is, she thinks, how sublimely incoherent that her generation, which doesn't have much of anything to talk about yet, has produced men who never stop talking, men like Bing, for example, or men like Jake, who talks about himself at the slightest prompting, who has an opinion on every subject, who spews forth words from morning to night, but just because he talks, that doesn't mean she wants to listen to him, whereas with the silent men, the old men, the ones who are nearly gone now, she would give anything to hear what they have to say. — Paul Auster

Only you, Will Traynor, could tell a woman how to wear a bloody dress. — Jojo Moyes

I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go. — Peter Riegert

There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to traveling. It's not a question of meeting or seeing new faces particularly, or hearing new stories, but of looking at life in a different way. It's the curtain coming up on another act. — James Salter

The realization that we were so near to victory made life become very dear to me. I felt near home! — William Arthur Sirmon

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are. — Walt Whitman

[F]ast intercommunication between points is making all points the same point. — Alan W. Watts

I think nobody can explain why some people win and why some people lose. It really doesn't always have to do much with talent. It has to do with how you deal with pressure. — Howard Bryant

I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write. — Elizabeth George

Alec looked impressed. "I didn't know all that."
Jace hopped on the windowsill and swung his legs. "Not all of us sleep through history lessons."
"I do not
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"Oh yes you do, and drool on the desk besides."
"Shut up said Magnus, but he said it quite mildly. — Cassandra Clare

You have to find your own tricks! — Dharma Mittra