Rolvaag Novelist Quotes & Sayings

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener. — Patrick Ewing

And a man accepting a kiss as 'punishment' has to be the most overplayed parlor trick since the time of the First Emperor. Next to accepting a drink as punishment. Oh, the torture of it!"

"I didn't say I wouldn't enjoy it. This is merely a chance for you to know what it is to have a kiss you were in complete control of."

"It's hardly the same. You're still allowing me this liberty, as if it were a gift you were bestowing."

"Miss Yue-ying," he sighed. "Show some mercy. — Jeannie Lin

Thus, until we have truly become a democracy, every American, white as much as black, red, or yellow, lives not in his skin but on it. If one person is called "colored", let all be colored. — Russell Banks

A gold cage is still a cage.
-King David I
Oh, go cry in a bag of money.
-Queen Christina — MaryJanice Davidson

Nordstrom believes that great service begins with showing courtesy to everyone-customers, employees, and vendors. — Robert Spector

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself. — Peter Gay

I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road. — Aziz Ansari

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap. — Barbara Cook

I had tried to go to college, and I didn't really fit in. I went to a real narrow-minded school where people gave me a lot of trouble, and I was hounded off the campus - I just looked different and acted different, so I left school. — Bruce Springsteen

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. — Stephen Dunn

I have no intention of disowning my record as a member of the McGuinty government. — Kathleen Wynne

I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state. — Martin McGuinness

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. — Charles Bukowski

Gee, I'm really glad I came."
Jess turned to Leslie in unbelief.
"It was better than a movie."
"You're kidding."
"No, I'm not." And she wasn't. He could tell by her face. "That whole Jesus thing is really interesting, isn't it?"
"What d'you mean?"
"All those people wanting to kill him when he hadn't done anything to hurt them." She hesitated. "It's really kind of a beautiful story - like Abraham Lincoln or Socrates - or Aslan. — Katherine Paterson