Scardera Hawthorne Quotes & Sayings

It's almost embarrassing to be out in public and someone comes up to you and says, 'My mother had the same thing you did.' What do you say? I don't know what to say to make them feel better about their situation. — Jon Lester

I wanted a bath, even if it were dust. A strigil to scrape the skin that I couldn't crawl out of. — Debora Greger

The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard. — A.G. Street

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. — Jennifer Egan

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy. — Chris Rock

There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism. — Richard Holbrooke

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him. — Jonathan Swift

My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I saw now how different the same features could seem when they were illuminated by different spirit. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. — Richard Lovelace

He feels as if he is floating, and she is weighting him to earth; he would like to put his arms around her and his face in her apron, and rest there listening to her heartbeat. But he doesn't want to mess her up, get blood all down the front of her. — Hilary Mantel