Balart Shelf Quotes

#1. She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically.

Ford Madox Ford

#2. If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. Often, one turns to jazz.

Andrew Miller

#4. There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.

Louis Stokes

#5. Power given up is power given away.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#6. In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.

Sherman Alexie

#7. There's no mistaking what kind of potion I need. Caffeine - for alertness and rejuvenation.

Amy Alward

#8. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains. I have amazing parents.

Noemie Lenoir

#9. One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

Carter G. Woodson

#10. Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

L. Frank Baum

#11. The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe ...

Thorstein Veblen

#12. I've learned a lot just being able to see things clearer.

Shy Glizzy

#13. Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

Pete Hamill

#14. We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

Haile Selassie