Vanport Quotes & Sayings

If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having. — Deborah Gregory

I do use husbands a bit (in books). It's what writers of this kind do, actually. I am quite careful to try to keep the family out of my writing. You find, on the whole, that men will forgive you everything if you say they are good in bed and the women if you say they are beautiful. It's the way to turn away wrath. — Fay Weldon

Oh, yes. Milk from my favorite cows:brown. — Darynda Jones

ecumenical relations it is important not only to know each other better, but also to recognize what the Spirit has sown in the other as a gift for us. — Pope Francis

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. — Benjamin Franklin

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries. — Tim O'Brien

I am a shark, Cassie," he says slowly, drawing the words out, as if he might be speaking to me for the last time. Looking into my eyes with tears in his, as if he's seeing me for the last time. "A shark who dreamed he was a man. — Rick Yancey

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it. — Harry Connick Jr.

I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state. — Rick Smolan

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland. — Chelsea Cain

Surfeits of happiness are fatal. — Baltasar Gracian

One must make one's own mistakes — Agatha Christie

Wisdom will guide us and guard us in our daily walk. — Warren W. Wiersbe

I didn't know what I was in for when I joined 'The X Factor' - I underestimated it. — Cheryl Cole