Strasbaugh Polisher Quotes & Sayings

As bellhop closes the door behind him, you are left with a feeling of security and relaxation. Your mind starts to drift, and you wonder to yourself, who else has stayed in this room? — Ann Benjamin

Grace believed that those who could see their duty clearly were required by God to do the heavy lifting for the morally blind. Where — Richard Russo

[Girls] study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting individual domestic pleasure and social enjoyment in conversation, but what are they in comparison with the grand stimulation of independence and self- reliance, of the capability of contributing to the comfort and happiness of those whom they love as their own souls? — Sarah Moore Grimke

Carol would not be a bad one to [settle down] with. She's pretty and bright, and maybe this is what love is. She's good company: her interests broaden almost every day. She reads three books to my one, and I read a lot. We talk far into the night. She still doesn't understand the first edition game: Hemingway, she says, reads just as well in a two-bit paperback as he does in a $500 first printing. I can still hear myself lecturing her the first time she said that. Only a fool would read a first edition. Simply having such a book makes life in general and Hemingway in particular go better when you do break out the reading copies. I listened to myself and thought, This woman must think I'm a government-inspected horse's ass. Then I showed her my Faulkners, one with a signature, and I saw her shiver with an almost sexual pleasure as she touched the paper where he signed. Faulkner was her most recent god[.] — John Dunning

I won't surprise attack your face. — Jamie McGuire

I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks. — Maeve Binchy

I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them. — Melina Marchetta

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it. — John Selden

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need. — Henry David Thoreau

People will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know. — Joni Mitchell

I've learned in my older age that sexy gets you further than brains. — Bill Engvall

At this point I thought 'We made it,' by which I meant 'We survived.' I also was acutely aware that my childhood dream of flying into space had just come true. — Ron Garan

The people who taught you to love weren't always the ones who stayed. — Brittainy C. Cherry