Stidams Quotes & Sayings

Great editors do not discover nor produce great authors; great authors create and produce great publishers. — John Farrar

When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night. — Brandon Sanderson

With face blindness, I seem to constantly lose the people I love. — Jennifer Niven

The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole. — Nelson Mandela

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase. — Hiram Rhodes Revels

When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour in improving themselves, they set a proportionate value on their own thoughts, and wish to enforce them by efficacious expressions; speech becomes embodied and permanent; different modes and phrases are compared, and the best obtains an establishment. By degrees one age improves upon another. — Samuel Johnson

China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods. — Li Keqiang

We discussed all of this before Anthony decided to run for mayor, so really what I want to say is I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him, and as we have said from the beginning, we are moving forward. — Huma Abedin

She had her image ... and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the meanwhile she had got her mood on to paper - and this is the release that all writers, even the feeblest, seek for as men seek for love; and, having found it, they doze off happily into dreams and trouble their hearts no further. — Dorothy L. Sayers

One of the great lies we tell ourselves is that just because we're related to people, we have to like them. — Michael Thomas Ford

Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys. — Sam Smith

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul. — Katherine Paterson

Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. — Charlotte Bronte

The bread which you do not use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes that you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the money that you keep locked away is the money of the poor; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit." That's a challenging — Kerry Weber

Tyrion pushed forward. "MY LORDS! " he shouted. He had to shout, to have any hope of being heard.
His father raised a hand. Bit by bit, the hall grew silent. — George R R Martin