Stopovers Near Quotes & Sayings

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Customs inspectors could not stop the export of software through telephone lines; labour inspectors could not stop software engineers from talking to customers in America at night; excise inspectors could not harass the IT firms because the government did not levy tax on services. Much like Gurgaon, India's knowledge economy literally grew at night when the government slept. — Gurcharan Das

But I must say it has been, in general, a boon not to have been a beautiful woman. Because I was barely looked at, I was free to do the looking. — Anna Funder

The music was a tapestry woven of light and dark and color, building delicate links in a chain that latched on to her heart and spread out into the world, binding her to it, connecting everything. — Sarah J. Maas

You wanna cry, chica?"
She nodded and squaked, "Yes"
"Then you cry" He signed as he caressed her arm. "I can't make you hard, so you be soft for both of us, okay? — Kele Moon

I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read. — Karl Lagerfeld

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am. — Mandy Patinkin

Back into your box, anonymous Yorick, with your sutured eyes and frozen scream! The indignity of your internment is no worse than ours. — Rick Yancey

Are you in Portland on business? I ask, and my voice is too high, like I've got my finger trapped in a door or something. Damn! Try to be cool, Ana! — E.L. James

Robb: Uncle Benjen said to send you to the stables if I saw you.
Jon: I have one more farewell to make.
Robb: Then I haven't seen you. — George R R Martin

So this is how liberty dies," she was saying to herself. "With cheering, and applause. — Matthew Woodring Stover

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room. — James Fenton

I can do what I dream of doing, one breath and one step at a time. — Liz Hester

because lying down and letting life walk over you was harder in the end. Getting through a bad day took less out of her than ignoring it until it built up into a crisis. — V.C. Lancaster

That's the trouble with innocents. They aren't innocent of doing, just of knowing what they're doing. — Jack Butler