Alice Ballard Quotes

#1. Time flew over me, its black wings spread.

Minae Mizumura

#2. I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

J.G. Ballard

#3. And if you have a law that isn't working, and you have thousands and thousands and millions of people, then the terrorists hide among them. And we have to have a law that makes sense.

Rudy Giuliani

#4. The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.

Winnie Byanyima

#5. Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

David Blaine

#6. I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Amy Grant

#7. The fiction writer is, first and foremost, an emotionalist.

Ray Bradbury

#8. ... a prudent archer has always a second bowstring

Henry James

#9. I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

Martin Freeman

#10. I'm an actress and a singer and I'm also a Christian. We're not all crazy right-wingers. I just want to be like Jesus, forgiving and loving and nonjudgmental, accepting of everyone even if they don't agree.

Kristin Chenoweth

#11. Dunn's Law:

Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.

Arthur Bloch

#12. But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame.

Lauren Oliver

#13. A duel, whether regarded as a ceremony in the cult of honour, or even when reduced in its moral essence to a form of manly sport, demands a perfect singleness of intention, a homicidal austerity of mood. [The duel]

Joseph Conrad

#14. It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.

Alastair Sim

#15. I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to mania, from depression to tranquility and beneath it all, excitement fizzes as if my blood is filled with gas.

Patricia Cornwell