Skalski Clemson Quotes & Sayings

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story! — Susan Campbell Bartoletti

If you have done your work about WHO YOU ARE and WHAT YOU STAND FOR you're moving from a space no one in the world can own. — Kami Guildner

Your dad and I have been talking."
"You need to stop that. The marriage will last longer. — Tom Upton

When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death. — Denton Welch

Reading over what I have written so far I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me. On the contrary they were merely casual events in a crowded summer and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs. — F Scott Fitzgerald

President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle. — Peter Baker

I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the microphone to establish a deeper intimacy with the audience. I did not portray an opera character; I was my true self. I would sing a four-to-five minute piece for the audience and then I could talk to them and say "Hi" to them! I would not need to act out scenes where my character was dying from tuberculosis or killing somebody else on stage, I could have a nice conversation with them. — Barbara Padilla

proudly. "One of the most dangerous assumptions we tend to repeatedly make is that of final achievement. There is never final achievement One Like Jade. There is completion within cycles, which only leads us to another set of cycles at a slightly higher level. — Denise Le Fay

When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously. — Mike Huckabee

I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am. — J.M. Coetzee

We are not a land of Islam, and if French citizens can be Muslims, it's on the condition to submit to habits and ways of life that the Greek, Roman influence and 16 centuries of Christianity have shaped. — Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Buying is a profound pleasure. — Simone De Beauvoir