Satinsky Retractor Quotes & Sayings

Life without purpose, is time without meaning. — Kiley Callaway

I started to write [ The Name of the Rose ] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk. — Umberto Eco

I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or have not judgment, penetration or taste to perform the task. — Sir Fulke Greville

I burrowed my head in his neck, Travis clutching me tight to him as he turned his back to the wave. As it crashed wildly around us, the sweet bloom of something beautiful began unfurling in my chest and rocked me hard. My throat worked at swallowing it down, but right then I wanted nothing more than to claw my way Inside his skin and never leave. — Kate McCarthy

This wedding will put a period at the end of a sentence that wasn't supposed to have ended yet. — Jennifer E. Smith

Simplicity is a most complex form — Duke Ellington

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. — Rick Perlstein

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up. — Noam Chomsky

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks. — Paul C. Nagel

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all. — C.S. Lewis

Holy fear is to shun evil. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I hardly wear any makeup. — Jules Asner

You are not there, Father," I cried. "I wake up at Gaudlin Hall, I spend most of my day there, I sleep there at night. And throughout it all there is but one thought running through my mind."
"And that is?"
"This house is haunted. — John Boyne

I'm not reinventing the wheel. I'm just making it run without squeaking.

Sunny Anderson, TV Chef — Lexi Dare