Yankell Quotes & Sayings

When The Journal of Words compiled its list of the one hundred best novels written in English, do you know that Pride and Prejudice was number twelve?" She stopped pacing and glared at Jane. "And do you know where Jane Eyre was?" she asked. She looked at the four of them in turn, but nobody answered her. "Number fifty-two!" she shrieked. "Fifty-two! Below that pornographic travesty Lolita!" She spat the title as if it were poison. "Below Huckleberry Finn! Below Ulysses. Have you ever tried to read Ulysses? Have you ever finished it? No, you haven't. No one has. They just carry it around and lie about having read it. — Michael Thomas Ford

Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. — Sylvia Plath

Nishi's sister, who was sixteen years old, had gone for a "holiday" in Sylhet and returned six months later with a husband and a swelling belly. Nishi, strong on forward-planning skills, was taking evasive action: she was going on a holiday of her own and she would return when she was twenty-five. At that ancient age the danger of marriage was over. — Monica Ali

Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family. — Ellen G. White

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen

The trouble with capturing one is that that original gesture is almost impossible to equal or improve upon. — Donald Barthelme

And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, that Manson's hypnotic powers might convince the jury he was innocent. — Nikolas Schreck

You think I pretend weakness?"
She nodded. "Not weakness, but you like to let others think they're in control, when it's you. — Kady Cross

Give me a kiss to build a dream on
And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss
Sweetheart, I ask no more than this
A kiss to build a dream on. — Louis Armstrong

No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people. — Cornelius Nepos

I think that's the reality of the business. It's not about what you did. It's what have you done for me lately. We're in the production business. What you did before is irrelevant. Everyone knows that. — Don Davis

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. — Oscar Wilde

Osby wasn't considered the smartest man in Eads County. But the no one ... knew him well enough to realize that he wasn't all that far from it either. — Josh Weil

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. — Dan Quayle