Scott And Allison Quotes & Sayings

Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. — Michael Reed

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name. — Ben Aaronovitch

The one's who want to make a difference, the people who can change the world for the better, are laughed out of the game by the players. — Joshua Grisham

It's a good excuse, though, orphanhood. It explains everything - every mistake and wrong turn. As Sherlock Holmes declared. She had no mother to advise her. How we long for it, that lack of advice! Imprudence could have been ours. Passionate affairs. Reckless adventures. Of course we're grateful for our stable upbringings, our hordes of informative relatives, our fleece-lined advantages, our lack of dramatic plots. But there's a corner of envy in us all the same. Why doesn't anything of interest happen to us, coddled as we are? Why do the orphans get all the good lines? — Margaret Atwood

Reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves. — Ann Patchett

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. — Malcolm Muggeridge

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law. — Kenneth Waltz

Because I love you. — Jeff Davis

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other. — Leland Stanford

The first draft of a story is the writer's clay. — Bruce Coville

It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive? — Frances Mayes