Speill Quotes & Sayings

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns. — Ellen Glasgow

If you want it, you can have it, Imogen. Don't make excuses because you're scared, he remarked harshly, almost angrily. — A Meredith Walters

We have power ... Our power isn't in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems ... they have power ... but it's not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings. — John Trudell

You know historians - can't leave a puzzle alone — Diana Gabaldon

No one's an angel - especially if he's a man — Ken Follett

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back. — Buchi Emecheta

The way people used to kiss before the age of historical materialism. — Ilya Ilf

No movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component' ... Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out — Ingrid Newkirk

He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.
p92 — Frances O'Roark Dowell

I don't believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction. — Geri Jewell

A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine. — Bob Gibson