Shleppers Quotes & Sayings

I don't know what I expected.
No, I'm lying. I know what I wanted. — Ilsa J. Bick

I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other. — Roma Downey

You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage. — Debra Dean

You can't change t he wor ld f rom t he rear view mir ror. — Anita Roddick

I remained completely conscious of Jeremiah. He smelled good. He looked good. He sounded good. And when he ran his tongue across the salt on that place between his index finger and his thumb, I wanted to be that little spot. -from chapter Lick, Drink, Suck!, The Boots My Mother Gave Me — Brooklyn James

He was a greater craftsman even than Isaac, and he knew it, and so, presently, did Isaac.
There was a greatness in Isaac. One evening at supper, between one bite of sausage and another, he was able to acknowledge that it was so. "He must increase, but I must decrease," he said to himself. He did not know where the quotation came from, or that in taking it to himself he had taken a fence at which many balked or fell. He finished the sausage without having the slightest idea that he was not the same man that he had been when he embarked upon it. The next morning he smiled at Job and asked him if he would like to help him with his clock. Job went crimson to the roots of his hair and unable to speak bent to pick up a tool he had dropped under the workbench. When he reappeared he was no more able to speak than he had been before, but his face was shining like the morning sun. From that moment the two increasingly loved each other. — Elizabeth Goudge

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre. — Michel De Montaigne

In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place. Certainly, the convention existed well before the age of the tape recorder and the wiretap. Not on the phone, in a spy or mystery story, has always been, in and of itself, sufficient to hold up the resolution of the case for a long, long time. — Renata Adler

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art. — Eli Broad

I've loved comics since I was very young, and I've always liked telling stories. — Cullen Bunn

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. — William Goldman

Downworld?" Tessa echoed, puzzled. "Is that a place in London?"
"Never mind that," said Will. "I'm boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption. — Cassandra Clare

The passengers slid out as if from a torn package. — Markus Zusak