Schneidmans Ten Quotes & Sayings

And Caitlin smiled. I Wanted to put her smile in my pocket to look at over and over — Alex Flinn

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province. — Maurice Duplessis

Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty. — Edward De Bono

Sometimes my mum is very disapproving of my comedy. — Rebel Wilson

There are more writers who read than readers who write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Time seemed to drag with dreamlike slowness, like a knife through cold honey, and the room took on a surreal golden sheen as if I was looking through that same jar of honey. Maybe at that moment, the sun shone just right though the grimy windows, but the woman, the shelves, the jars, everything in the room appeared in tones of gold and sepia, except for the painting behind the counter. From behind the shopkeeper's head, a fluorescent Mary and Jesus glared at me, their cartoon-like faces reproaching me for being there. — Sara Stark

By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story. — Alice Morse Earle

What they don't tell you is that you're more confused at twenty than you were at seventeen — Penelope Douglas

The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal. — Atul Gawande

Which sort of shows why my body is an idiot, because forced narcolepsy is pretty much the worst defense ever. — Jenny Lawson

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him. — Victor Hugo

On the day of the party I walked down to Covent Garden at lunchtime to buy a dress, and on my way to Boules I thought I would just stop off for a moment at Books etc. — Helen DeWitt