Quotes By Famous Authors: [L]
Like the wave of a magic wand, knowing the mythic heritage of a place can re-enchant the landscape.
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.
What did I expect him to saythat he would leave his wife? To do so was the province of fiction. Real life was not as ...
It's not the Mistletoe Knight that these knights are coming for. It's the girl. Lady Jaclyn." "The girl?" Blaise echoed. "She is rumored to be ...
Children must find not only their happiest fantasies, but their most violent and terrible nightmares. They must face their demons and laugh at them. That ...
Live, learn, and get Depends because shit happens!
When it comes to the things that bug us most about our child's behaviors or quirks (or about our own, our spouse's, or anyone else's ...
The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth ...
Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!
And on bad days, when his aura of sadness blazed like an alarm he couldn't turn off, I felt like I was doing everything wrong.
Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties.
When a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.
Writing is both an act of power and surrender. Passion and discovery. It is a tug at your soul that continues to pull you forward, ...
It's just to let the other one know it can be replaced.
Crete was heavily fortified, but Nicephorus brushed aside the waiting Arab army by sending in his marines - terrifying Norse warriors whose terrible double-bladed axes ...
A body, until the whole of Miss Baxter
Grant, in his message, has remembered all classes and conditions of men to Congress,
I cooked for him like a wife and washed his clothes and was a wife in other ways too terrible to mention.
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things ...
There was no denying Lisa always looked great. She was like one of those houses the hospital lotteries were always giving away, made up so ...
The rotating armatures of every generator and motor in this age of electricity are steadily proclaiming the truth of the relativity theory to all who ...
Now, you just stand back and let me give you a lesson in how to be a passive aggressive Southern bitch."
If you're an educator, caregiver, or parent, and you find yourself unable to contain your anger with kids, please consider getting professional help. Excessive harshness, ...
A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in ...
If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose ...
Realization that is beyond characteristic or designation is marvelous!
Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.
I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though ...
Friend is someone you can trust and admits you whatever you are
Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.
I will be a good wife," she thought, "that all the earth will know there is a God in Israel.
Unequally; rarely do they assign equal weights to attributes when performing categorization (Goodman, 1955; Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984; Ortony, 1979; Sutherland & Mackintosh, ...
To play for Barcelona, means to have an opportunity for a brilliant career. But to reach the top of it, you have to play for ...
Ravens were omnivores and ate an array of tidbits including insects, seeds, berries, meat, and carrion, the dead flesh of animals, which made her cringe.
If you never want to work, love what you do.
This century faded - as did the last several - and she was Aphrodite again, goddess of lust and pleasure and sex, and she was ...
The most important thing is to focus, focus, focus.
Number printed on the letterhead. She asked the
Call me what you want; I'm still taking your cake.
And I don't regret the rainOr the nights I felt the painOr the tears I had to crySome of those times along the way.Every road ...
Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?
When I later discovered that she (illustrator Faith Jaques) was a compulsive reader who loved to be alone and kept cats because they are the ...
The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small ... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small ...
In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet ...
I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we ...
The basic issue is whether the financial elite or the government on behalf of the people should have the profit from creating money.
Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for ...
I promised my dad before he passed away that I would take care of the family.
So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this ...
I enjoy being in Toronto - there's lots of energy, lots of neat different neighbourhoods - but Vancouver is still home and always will be. ...