Sarah Fishburn Quotes & Sayings

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. — Joseph Joubert

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader. — Walter Mosley

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank. — Alec Waugh

Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express. — Mavis Gallant

We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do. — Judith McNaught

They warned me, 'you're going to be doing the screen test with Daniel Radcliffe a week after the audition.' And then in the hair and make up department, he walked up behind and scared me. But you get used to him quickly because he tries to make you feel very welcome and at home. — Evanna Lynch

I'm not attracted to grumpy older men. Yeah, I'd just keep telling myself that. — Meghan Ciana Doidge

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature. — Julio Cortazar

No other society in the history of the world has searched so long for a meaningful cultural identity and failed in its quest as has America, the land of You Are What You Do. — Lester D. Langley

With industry's sales and marketing machines cloaked in mantles of charitable virtue, no wonder most Americans don't realize that the junk that passes for food is in fact the biggest contributor to our health crisis, and the junk that passes for medicine keeps us just well enough to continue to spend on both the food and the medicine. — T. Colin Campbell