Backscratching Quotes

#1. There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours and backscratching.

Michael Longley

#2. I came to Harbor House when I was a boy. I was looking for the Court of Owls. That time I found nothing. Not tonight.

Scott Snyder

#3. No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

Harrison Ford

#4. I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.

Len Goodman

#5. There's beauty and darkness in everything: Sorrow in joy, life in death, throns on the roses. You can't escape pain and torment anymore then you can give up joy and beauty ...

Cate Tiernan

#6. Well ... I mean ... "
Her eyebrows lifted and she looked at him slyly. "You want to ask me about the fan again?"
He grinned. She'd never let him live that down.

Nicholas Sparks

#7. If you chase after your dreams, your heels must be cushioned by resilience.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything, and do everything consciously.

Vladimir Lenin

#9. Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

Joe Louis

#10. Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.

Rachel Roberts

#11. In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.

Ivo Andric

#12. The core truth of our marriage, the most important thing for me to remember, was that Michael and I loved each other. Our love had gotten pushed aside and bruised and buried, but it has always existed.

Sarah Pekkanen

#13. I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

Andy Dick

#14. For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.

Marianne Williamson