Searchlights From The Word Quotes & Sayings

Swathed in an old tweed coat on which the damp had settled like a thousand tiny pearls. — Philip Pullman

All that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current
carried where? — Pope John Paul II

My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me. — Kate Voegele

God will win every contest in life, so stop trying to beat Him at his own game. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Saracen Rue knows things."
That's what Dexter Vex was told all those hundreds of years ago before they first met. He couldn't remember who had introduced them - Skulduggery? Ravel? Ghastly maybe - but when he'd been asked what magical discipline Saracen had chosen, he'd been assured that "Saracen Rue knows things." That was all. — Derek Landy

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable. — Amy Tan

I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally. — Agnes Varda

I am somewhat on the shy side. I know people might find that hard to believe. — Rod Stewart

Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection. — Pope Innocent III

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't. — Jerry Bruckheimer

One feature of the voucher plan that has aroused particular concern is the possibility that parents could and would "add on" to the vouchers. If the voucher were for, say, $1,500, a parent could add another $500 to it and send his child to a school charging $2,000 tuition. Some fear that the result might be even wider differences in educational opportunities than now exist because low-income parents would not add to the amount of the voucher while middle-income and upper-income parents would supplement it extensively. — Milton Friedman

It wasn't until I had children that I really understood what love meant. — Nicholas Sparks

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. — Jonathan Swift