Size 12 Is Not Fat Quotes & Sayings

In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading. — Elizabeth Berg

So go ahead and
make your way
Back from the edge
of yesterday
No one knows what
Can't be known
'Cause when you start
You're all alone
But take enough steps
Take enough steps
Take enough steps
And someday
Someday you'll be home
Heather Wells, Untitled — Meg Cabot

There are three kinds of fighters: the aggressive fighter who charges in blindly trying to get the upper hand, the defensive fighter who blocks and evades until his opponent is tired, and then the most dangerous type of fighter, the one who waits for his opponent to make a mistake. — Aaron B. Powell

Of all the components of the ecosystem, humans are the only ones we know to be completely optional. — Herb Hammond

You're like rottweilers - they protect you from burglars, but nothing protects you from them. — Dia Reeves

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies. — Sarah Josepha Hale

I'm not done writing songs about you yet. — Maggie Stiefvater

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are. — Tracy Chevalier

In the same way that Morse code reduces written language to dots and dashes, the spoken version of the code reduces speech to just two vowel sounds. The key word here is two. Two types of blinks, two vowel sounds, two different anything, really, can with suitable combinations convey all types of information. — Charles Petzold

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. — Douglas Hyde

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too. — Albert Schweitzer

Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me. — Dave Morin

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test ... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies. — Rick Warren

A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity? — Doris Lessing

Be thankful for all that you have. — Lailah Gifty Akita