Supinated Foot Quotes & Sayings

There was the focus of seeking pleasure, and the numbing effect, once they were finished, removing all specific thoughts from her brain. It ushered in the solid, dreamless sleep that otherwise eluded her. — Jhumpa Lahiri

How like a male. Pull out some tools and start banging on something, and they flocked in from miles around. She pushed her hair out of her face with the back of one hand and scowled at him. "I am perfectly capable of breaking it down myself."
"Of course you are," he told her smiling. "That's not what I said. I said may I help? — Thea Harrison

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. — Mary C. Ames

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting. — Mason Cooley

A letter is the most basic - yet the most flexible - mode of correspondence, regardless of its subject matter. — Scribendi

Ash liked his characters at or over the edge of madness, constructing systems of belief and survival from the fragments of experience available to them. — A.S. Byatt

W-MT: There was a book I read about in the New York Times Book Review. It had a red cover, maybe? A.J.: Yeah, that sounds familiar. [Translation: That is excessively vague. Author, title, description of the plot - these are more useful locators. That the cover might have been red and that it was in the New York Times Book Review helps me far less than you might think.] Anything else you remember about it? [Use your words.] — Gabrielle Zevin

But even democracy ruins itself by excess - of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy. This is at first glance a delightful arrangement; it becomes disastrous because the people are not properly equipped by education to select the best rulers and the wisest courses (588). "As to the people they have no understanding, and only repeat what their rulers are pleased to tell them" ( — Will Durant

His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler. — Rosamund Hodge

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft. — Alice Hoffman