Softbacks Quotes & Sayings

If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching, — Darrin Patrick

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity. — Anne Waldman

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a lot of female fans. — Lita Ford

He's just not that into you, if he doesn't have a heart. — Coco J. Ginger

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile - except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison. — Isaac Asimov

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married? — Gabrielle Zevin

I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings. — Mahatma Gandhi

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient adjectival form. A citizen would have to be either a United Statesian or some other such clumsy locution, or an American, thereby arrogating to ourselves a title that belonged equally to the inhabitants of some three dozen other nations on two continents. Several alternatives to America were actively considered -Columbia, Appalachia, Alleghania, Freedonia or Fredonia (whose denizens would be called Freeds or Fredes)- but none mustered sufficient support to displace the existing name. — Bill Bryson