Sementilli Trial Quotes & Sayings

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough

[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand. — Madame De Stael

I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Looking pretty isn't about how people see you. It's about letting people know how you feel about yourself. — Karen White

The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them. — Barack Obama

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

I use my work as catharsis. That's often the best thing that we can do, is to allow ourselves to rage because it's so rare that we get to. We're told to forgive - I don't want to! I don't want to forgive my abuser! I don't care to and I don't like that assumption that forgiveness makes me a better person. It's not authentic to me, my feelings and what I need. But everyone has their own way. — Margaret Cho

Introduction!" And yet when a novel goes back to print for a new hardcover edition, there ought to be something new in it to mark the occasion (something besides the minor changes as I fix the errors and internal contradictions and stylistic excesses that have bothered me ever since the novel first appeared). So be assured - the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, I not only won't stand in your way, I'll even agree with you! The novelet "Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card

I'm still fiercely ambitious. — Alexei Sayle

Silence hovers in the yards, leaving no pages with writing on them, that thing we'll later call the work. — Roberto Bolano

I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing. — Anthony Bourdain

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter. — Clarence Thomas

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. — Stephen Hawking

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind. — John Cheever

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal. — Ed Koch