The Glass Room Simon Mawer Quotes & Sayings

I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice ... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it. — Hosni Mubarak

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones. — William Gibson

Unfortunately, victimization convinces men and women who should be looking for a Savior to search for a scapegoat. After all, if I am not to blame for what I do, the Cross is much ado about nothing. How hopelessly out of date the old spiritual sounds to us. "Not my mother or my father, but it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer." Victims do not need God, just a sympathetic therapist or a good lawyer.41 — D. A. Carson

In the middle of the light is the most exquisite boy I've ever seen. His face is both achingly perfect and terrifyingly severe". — Carey Corp

I whistled and made nothing of going. But the village was very peaceful and quiet, and the light mists were solemnly rising, as if to show me the world, and I had been so innocent and little there, and all beyond was so unknown and great, that in that moment with a strong heave and sob I broke into tears. — Charles Dickens

She looked like a whisper made real. — Brittany Cavallaro

He's cutting the heart out of the American dream to own a home and have a good job ... and still he's popular

Tip O'Neill on Ronald Reagan — Chris Matthews