Ruana Wrap Quotes & Sayings

Torpid systems - it was pleasant to hear them — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I know the Bible pretty well. I'm not one of those guys who can immediately start quoting every book, but usually I know where to look to find certain themes. — John Darnielle

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate. — Libba Bray

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens. — Fannie Lou Hamer

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us? — Rebecca Miller

Reflection poisons desire. — Jean-Paul Sartre

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't. — Angus Wilson

It has been my unbroken policy not to see newspaper writers or give interviews to anyone. At the word interview spoken or written my ears go up and my chin out. — Grace Coolidge

Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance. — Lloyd D. Newell

I like my job. That's become very clear to me. I know how to pretend to do things that I otherwise didn't know how to do. — Timothy Olyphant

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. — Reinhold Niebuhr

He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want. — Peggy Kopman-Owens

Isn't it funny how sometimes you can instantly connect with people? How, despite being almost strangers, you can feel that you have known someone all your life? — Jane Green

I'm not exactly repulsive. — Vera-Ellen

We have plenty to learn from the numerous ants. Sawako Nakayasu-writer, antologist, Baudelaire's sister-turns daily life inside out and upside down then puts it into perfect little boxes. Here we follow the lines of black legged, syntactical units-the words-as they cross and they tickle the heart of the matter with us. — John Granger