Alvina Quotes

#1. Surely enough books have been written about heroines in similar circumstances. There is no need to go into the details of Alvina's six months in Islington.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. Thanks," she said, and went back to the coffee urn. Not exactly chummy. Suddenly grumpy Alvina

Jerry Spinelli

#3. Why is it our business whether Sarah Palin returned to her job as governor three days after her son was born, or three months? Is there a right answer?

Susan Estrich

#4. If they can't start a meeting without you, well, that's a meeting worth going to, isn't it? And that's the only kind of meeting you should ever concern yourselves with.

George Huang

#5. A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#6. The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough.

Wentworth Miller

#7. Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

Robert Smith

#8. If I had any real idea of exactly where inspiration comes from, I'd go there, find the foolish thing, bottle it, sell it, and retire to Tuscany.

Melanie Rawn

#9. No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.

Hani

#10. The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. This is not the end, of course. Every story we read, every film we watch, continues in our imagination if we allow it.

Hugh Howey

#12. So what have Keynes's 'madmen in authority' done with the ideas they inherited from defunct economists? They have set about dismantling the properly economic powers and initiatives of the state.

Tony Judt

#13. Wishes, wishes.
Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true

Roger Zelazny

#14. Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die.

Marcel Schwob

#15. She notices the unyielding ruthlessness of the storm; the crashing waves, the bitter sky kissing the water on the horizon, the keening laments of the sharp, cutting wind, and the relentless liquid deliverance of its somber showers. She'll never forgive the audacity of the storm's neglect.

Laura Kreitzer