Wlbs News Quotes & Sayings

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love. — Sheldon Harnick

I once spoke to a human geneticist who declared that the notion of intelligence was quite meaningless, so I tried calling him unintelligent. He was annoyed, and it did not appease him when I went on to ask how he came to attach such a clear meaning to the notion of lack of intelligence. We never spoke again. — Peter Medawar

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre
the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list. — Angela Carter

If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that song anymore. — Jay Asher

Pocock paused and stepped back from the frame of the shell and put his hands on his hips, carefully studying the work he had so far done. He said for him the craft of building a boat was like religion. It wasn't enough to master the technical details of it. You had to give yourself up to it spiritually; you had to surrender yourself absolutely to it. When you were done and walked away from the boat, you had to feel that you had left a piece of yourself behind in it forever, a bit of your heart. He turned to Joe. "Rowing," he said, "is like that. And a lot of life is like that too, the parts that really matter anyway. Do you know what I mean, Joe? — Daniel James Brown

Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown. — Rabindranath Tagore

Clouds signify the veil of the Most High. — Honore De Balzac