Scott Lavin Quotes & Sayings

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power. — Joyce Meyer

The vampire before me was a reminder of what I had been before Sarah had wrapped her slender fingers around my soul and grounded me. before I'd learned to rein in the monster inside me and trust that other voice that sometimes whispered I could be good underneath everything else. — S.J. Wright

A Gypsy never parts with her gold, unless she intends to spend it. — Debra Holland

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home. — Pico Iyer

Thanks for choosing me, Addison. — Kasie West

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him. — Anthony Trollope

tried to understand what I'd seen. I felt as if I'd just stepped out of a limn on twentieth-century book burnings: gaunt, vampiric Goebbels screaming beside a seditious inferno; Stalin; Mao and his Red Guards; Iranian forces in the Republic of Mahabad burning anything in Kurdish; midcentury New York school kids incinerating comics in Binghamton; Ray Bradbury's firemen; apartheid-era librarians; Pinochet; Pol Pot; Serbian nationalists setting fire to the National and University Library. — Alena Graedon

Every human must take responsibility for his actions. — Jalal Talabani

As one Iraqi said, "It is like I am standing naked in a room with a big hat on my head. Everyone comes in and helps put flowers and ribbons on my hat, but no one seems to notice that I am naked. — Peter Van Buren

He is the sun and the moon and everything in between. — Colleen Oakes

The competition has improved tremendously. In 2003, I could teach a guy how to play poker in an hour and he could win some money. Today, it would take days. The game has gotten so much tougher. So I will spend my time with my family and play when I can. — Chris Moneymaker

We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians. — Christine Gregoire

Take love and kindness with you, wherever you go. — Debasish Mridha

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey