Americus Quotes

#1. If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. Every woman in the world sometimes thinks about shoes in the middle of sex. It's a well-known fact.

Sophie Kinsella

#3. Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.

Alistair Begg

#4. Sometimes friends grow apart. You tell each other everything and you're sure this is a person you'll know the rest of your life but then she stops writing or calling, or you realize she's really not so nice, or she turns into a right-winger.

Anita Diamant

#5. I've had a fountain pen surgically implanted in my left index finger to save trouble. My body is tattooed with line upon line of truth, fiction, and a not-always-pleasing mix of the two.

Chila Woychik

#6. I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

Vincent Van Gogh

#7. You must go on.
I can't go on.
I'll go on.

Samuel Beckett

#8. The Master said, 'Subsidiarity.' Tsze-Kung said, 'What the hell are you talking about?

Confucius

#9. He lights a cigarette off a candle. These death-tubes, these little crutches or fuses: useful for getting through all sorts of things you don't want to get through.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#10. Here I am! Now what are your other two wishes

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. While driving and talking on a cell phone, how much of your world do you miss? The research findings suggest you could have your eyes wide open, but fail to see the car, the bike, or the deer about to cross your path.

David McRaney

#12. The print is devised so that I can cut the dresses on the bias, so they work around the body. It's not like a regular print that you buy and ends up being a vertical and a horizontal placement. It works around the body.

John Galliano

#13. I put the 'fun' in fund-raising and the 'rah' in Israel.

Stewart Rahr

#14. The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

Nicola Sturgeon