Undertown By Jim Quotes & Sayings

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that. — John Burnside

To say that O began to await her lover the minute he left her is a vast understatement: she was henceforth nothing but vigil and night. — Pauline Reage

I heard that your brain stops growing when you start doing drugs. Let's see, I guess that makes me 19. — Steven Tyler

The hood made me realise that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn't do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Crime offers internship programmes and part-time jobs and opportunities for advancement. Crime gets involved in the community. Crime doesn't discriminate. — Trevor Noah

Technology will move so fast that unfortunately, or fortunately for me, you will be required to buy a new phone quite often. — Charles Dunstone

Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it. — Richard Parks Bland

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory. — Annie Lennox

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from. — Brandi Carlile

Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go! — John G. Stumpf

I never did anything for free. Other than dancing in clubs. I give that away for nothing. — Vince Vaughn

And what are your interests and hobbies, Nicholas?" Annabel asked faintly, sounding like a cross between a television interviewer and a hostage. Nick considered this for a minute, and then said "I like swords." Annabel leaned over her plate and asked, her voice changing "You fence?" "Not exactly," Nick drawled. "I'm more freestyle. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years. — Louis L'Amour

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations. — Franz Grillparzer

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products. — Thomas L. Friedman

If I were a real Creek View girl, the kind Josh liked, I'd be hammered right now, not thinking about my dead father. — Heather Demetrios