Ballad Novel Quotes

#1. It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.

William James

#2. When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

Andy Taylor

#3. For a woman like Shiela, a soft hand would render her bold and controlling and a firm one would make her bitter and resentful.

Kel Kade

#4. We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing.

Herbert Lockyer

#5. We can't do without dominating others or being served ... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

Albert Camus

#6. Seasons didn't come behind the nicotine-stained walls of Mountain City's prison, so Harm always imagined it spring--the locust trees clustered with shaggy white blooms, the wet woods flecked with bloodroot, and wild roses and honeysuckle flashing white among the chestnuts on the mountainsides...

Sharyn McCrumb

#7. My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them.

Philippos Syrigos

#8. It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

Caleb Carr

#9. They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over.

Christopher Atkins

#10. Honour, How much we fight with weakness to preserve thee!

John Ford

#11. What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

Barbara Delinsky

#12. I feared my soul was dying, being replaced by the monster I would become.

Nely Cab

#13. Dealing with the Scots, my father had always said, was like trying to geld wildcats with your teeth, but luckily the wildcats spent much of their time fighting each other. Once

Bernard Cornwell