Strouse Electric Quotes & Sayings

If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I've written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire. — Robin Wasserman

When you are corn and roses and at rest
I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost
To haunt the scene where I was happiest
To bend above the thing I loved the most — Edna St. Vincent Millay

She had been too well-trained to allow her emotions to take control of her at the time, but the feelings were too strong to quietly recede into a regimen of critical thought. Deep inside her they stewed, logic and reason slowly boiling off. Reduced to their essence, her feelings became more potent, condensed into an emotional certainty. I should have saved them. — Matt K. Turner

It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name - corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals. — Mark Kurlansky

Strong in all the Broken Places — Ernest Hemingway,

I learned to write with my desk in the living room, next to the TV. But mostly in my head, and I try to be able to do it under any circumstances. — Shane McCrae

Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential. — Shmuley Boteach

He sucked his lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Aren't you Spanish?"
She raised one arm in a salute. "Viva la Queen Isabella!"
"I see. Then why are you speaking with a French accent? — Julia Quinn

Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any act of Congress. It depends on the relations of a people to their God. It is the churches to which we must look to develop the resources for the great moral offensive that is required to make human rights secure, and to win a just and lasting peace. — John Foster Dulles

You've got to enjoy every day and make the best of it and go forward. — Tom Benson