The Thorn Birds Book Quotes & Sayings

Startled, I flinched "What are you doing?"
"Keeping you from going postal."
"You're doing it wrong. — L.B. Gregg

A good joke provides tension, and then, release of that tension. You build the tension by saying things that are controversial. The release is the laugh. The bigger the surprise or insight in your joke, the bigger the laugh. — Greg Giraldo

Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape?
Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice — Dennis R. Miller

I can evade questions without help; what I need is answers — John F. Kennedy

Thinking is the soul talking to itself. — Plato

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married. — Anna Held

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction. — T. S. Eliot

My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me. — Venus Williams

I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court. — Keyshawn Johnson

It may seem demeaning to the vanity of some individuals, but like all elements of the mind, God and all its correlated sensations of divinity are the majestic creations of neurobiology. — Abhijit Naskar

Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest. — Dale Carnegie

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice. — Ann Patchett

For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them. — Ernest Hemingway,

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter. — Henry David Thoreau