Quotes & Sayings About The Importance Of The English Subject

That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything? — Emily Maguire

The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge. — Graciela Chichilnisky

Women's voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats. — Lucia Berlin

It's the work that's important, not the individual who does it. — Gregory Maguire

Sigh. Here's another fine woman that historians can't believe was real. Of course she was real. Not only is there a splendid Chinese poem called "The Ballad of Mulan", there is also n excellent cartoon by Disney. — Sandi Toksvig

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. — David Foster Wallace

Wink kissed deep. Deep as a dark, misty, forest path. One that lead to blood and love and death and monsters. — April Genevieve Tucholke

Forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me. — John Fowles

God, through the Law, His alien
work, brings man to despair and humility and to a recognition of his
need, and through the Gospel, His appropriate work, He gives man faith
and the knowledge of His forgiveness. — Joel R. Beeke

The first, he says, is a feeling of recognition - the thing that makes you say to your newfound love (the quotes are his), "I know we've just met, but somehow I feel as though I already know you." The second is a feeling of timelessness: "Even though we've only been seeing each other for a short time, I can't remember when I didn't know you." The third is a feeling of reunification: "When I'm with you, I no longer feel alone; I feel whole, complete. — Kathryn Schulz

Becoming a grandmother has felt like being a mother. — Jade Jagger

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye. — Patrick Marber

(reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune
'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'
(pause)
'No. Magic possesses them'. — Tommy Tune

If what you are called to feels less than extraordinary, there is a tendency to think, 'Well, the Lord has big plans for me later.' And you wait patiently until he decides to reveal that master plan. But what if his plan for you is right where you are? Are you missing it because you are looking for something 'more' extraordinary? — Emily P. Freeman

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power. — Vanessa Carlton