258 Engine Quotes

#1. Because I obviously can't tell a friend from an

Suzanne Collins

#2. The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

Norman Mailer

#3. Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

H.L. Mencken

#4. Let us also go, that we might die with him

Thomas The Apostle

#5. Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.

Paul Strand

#6. If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.

Kevin Keck

#7. When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

Harry S. Truman

#8. I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.

David F. Swensen

#9. I guess I knew it wasn't a game, but I ran anyway and I boosted myself up on the water spigot and poured through the window with the boneless grace of little kids.

Holly Black

#10. You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it.

Robert Karl Hanson

#11. I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

Michael Bergin

#12. To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

Oliver Herford

#13. How could he be so good to me when I'd hurt him so deeply? I remembered his blood-curdling roar when I'd ridden away from him - to be with Jack. . . . As

Kresley Cole

#14. There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.

Germaine Greer

#15. When nobody is paying attention, anything is possible.

Alan Grayson