Whittled Wood Quotes & Sayings

Cole, I know I haven't earned it, but would you mind very much if I tried the organ?" Blake's voice filled the empty church.
Cole smiled sadly. "Of course, brother. It would be an honor to hear you play again."
Cole's despair settled into his bones. His crying soul now had the worst kind of company: another soul crying just as loud. — Debra Anastasia

and tested room service. I left her at work Monday — Robert B. Parker

Relax,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with a slow, awkward beginning. The text for the whole relationship, the sustaining mythos, is built in the first few encounters. The whirl of emotions, the push and pull. So the more of this kind of material we generate, the better. — Jonathan Lethem

I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem. — Tariq Ramadan

I'm not looking and I don't go hunting. I'm the type who's got to be found. — Jeremy Brett

If I'd known you'd look so beautiful, I would've gotten dressed up," Loki teased when Finn and Thomas brought him into the War Room. Finn shoved him into a seat unnecessarily hard,but Loki didn't protest.
"Don't get familiar with the Princess, Duncant told him,giving him a stony look.
"My apologies," Loki said. "I wouldn't want to get familiar with anyone."
Loki looked about the room. Duncan, Finn, Thomas, Tove,the Chancellor, and I were the ones set to meet Sara. The rest of the house was on standby, should we need them,but we didn't want to look like we were ambushing Sara when she arrived.
"Did you change your mind and decide to execute me?" Loki asked,looking us over. "Because you all look like you're going to a funeral."
"Not now," I said, fidgeting with my bracelet and watching the clock.
"Then when,Princess?" Loki asked. "Because we only have about fifteen minutes until I leave."
I rolled my eyes and ignored him. — Amanda Hocking

Foreign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English? — Stephen Colbert

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm. — Linus Pauling

The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still. — Susan Sontag

In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization. — Robert Gilpin

Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. - — William Shakespeare

The white man's God was a lot like him. He never for a second figured there was anyone else already here. He figured it was all just here waiting for Him to do whatever He wanted to with it. And boy, do white people love to do stuff, jut to do it. — R.S. Belcher

Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest. — Lincoln Patz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America. — Ted Cruz

You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. — Holly Black

Who do you think made this world an' the things 'at's in it? Maybe it's your notion 'at somebody about your size whittled it from a block o' wood, scattered a little sand for earth, stuck a few seeds for trees, an' started the oceans with a waterin' pot! I don't know what paved streets an' stall feedin' do for a man, but any one 'at's lived sixty year on the ground knows 'at this whole old earth is jest teemin' with work 'at's too big for anything but a God, an' a mighty BIG God at that! — Gene Stratton-Porter