Backplate Quotes

#1. What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection ... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. Three hours later the two men were calling each other Harry and Allan, which goes to show what a couple of bottles of tequila can do for international relations.

Jonas Jonasson

#3. [Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh or difficult to bear.

Cheryl Strayed

#4. Why are some people talkative while others measure their words? Why

Susan Cain

#5. America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that's when they've been turned. And they'll be that way forever.

Charlaine Harris

#6. Last time I was sober, man I felt bad,
Worst hangover that I ever had.
It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night,
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.

Mark Knopfler

#7. I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.

Florence Green

#8. Be patient? That's all you've got for me?" Steve complained ten minutes later.
Kylie glanced up at Perry, circling them as they sat behind the office, and then frowned at Steve. "I don't know why everyone thinks I'm the love guru.

C.C. Hunter

#9. Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world.

Jane Seymour

#10. Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?

Khalil Gibran

#11. Survival is your strength not your shame.

T. S. Eliot

#12. Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

Donald Sadoway