Smerecky Pennsylvania Quotes & Sayings

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart — Lady Gaga

She must have been debating staying in the line or forcing me to run home and change. — Kiera Cass

When you belong to someone . . . you don't kiss anyone else. You don't kiss his enemy. You don't lie to him. Betray him. — Katy Evans

To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world. — Joshua Foer

If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life. — Mahatma Gandhi

I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting. — Damon Galgut

Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all. — Jennifer Worth

It is as hard for our children to believe that we are not omnipotent as it is for us to know it, as parents. But that knowledge is necessary as the first step in the reassessment of power as something other than might, age, privilege, or the lack of fear. It is an important step for a boy, whose societal destruction begins when he is forced to believe that he can only be strong if he doesn't feel, or if he wins. — Audre Lorde

What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul? — Philip K. Dick

Bejart is almost never performed in New York City; critically, he just gets attacked here. — David Hallberg

I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide. — Bonnie Langford

Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious. — Pete Hamill

You are in difficulty," she observed.
"He will not come," Kraznys said.
"There is a reason. A dragon is no slave. — George R R Martin