Waziristan Operation Quotes & Sayings

The softest grass can break any stone in her quest to find the sun. Rise again, woman, RISE AGAIN! — Autumn Morning Star

A chrome spiral staircase connects the main floor to the upper one. It reminds Prospect of a big strand of DNA. Once he's out of the shower, he feels new. He opens a window. The gentle hush of traffic is surprisingly soothing. It is like putting a seashell to his ear, but instead of hearing an ocean, he hears a city and all its voices. — Dwight Okita

Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself. — Nancy Meyers

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation. — Edna O'Brien

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page — Laurie Halse Anderson

When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that. — Maggie Q

Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which, when the lime and straw are mixed with such sand, will cause it to crack as it dries on account of the great strength of the mixture. But river sand, though useless in "signinum" on account of its thinness, becomes perfectly solid in stucco when thoroughly worked by means of polishing instruments. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

He was almost six, that tender age when the baby plumpness starts to melt away from children's bodies and you can see, in their newly angular faces, the people they might become. — Sharon Guskin

Well, lookee there. Be a fuck of a night, yay? — Stacia Kane

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane. — Jim Gaffigan

An afro is a poor man's haircut. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure. — Sharon Stone

If there are unforeseen and potentially disastrous repercussions to the rash acts of the ignorant, so too are there unanticipated consequences buried in works of genius. — Chris Turner