Romilda Draper Quotes & Sayings

You and I
will be
lost and found
a thousand times
along this
cobbled
road of us. — Atticus Poetry

Identity. That's my elephant. The thought came with certainty, without the question mark on the end this time. Not fame, exactly, though recognition was some kind of important cement for it. But what you were was what you did. And I did more, oh yes. If a hunger for identity were translated into, say, a hunger for food, he'd be a more fantastic glutton than Mark ever dreamed of being. Is it irrational, to want to be so much, to want so hard it hurts? And how much, then, was enough? — Lois McMaster Bujold

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned. — Michael Kinsley

You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past. — Cate Blanchett

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then. — Lyle Lovett

A refreshed mind is a creative and productive one — Kathy Bell

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. — Carol Shields

More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it. — Maggie Stiefvater

Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community. — Jim Gerlach

What would it take for you to go out with me? — Simone Elkeles

Our sense of what American English is has upended our relationship to articulateness, our approach to writing, and how (and whether) we impart it to the young, our interest in poetry, and our conception of what it is, and even our response to music and how we judge it. — John McWhorter

Swearing, drunkenness, "haunting bad houses," fighting, and drawing graffiti - hugh penises were a favourite - on the palace walls were all punishable by warnings, — Alison Weir

If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends. — George Cukor

Self-realization is not the awareness that this world is a dream, that's a part of self-realization. — Frederick Lenz