Bascombe Padgett Quotes

#1. The buzz is still with me. I get goose bumps.

David Beckham

#2. When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Barry White

#3. My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

Joan Didion

#4. Presence is a noun, not a verb; it is a state of being, not doing. States of being are not highly valued in a culture that places a high priority on doing. Yet, true presence or "being with" another person carries with it a silent power.

Jay Allison

#5. We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

Rick Perry

#6. I replaced Walsh, I replaced Blackmore, now I just gotta be me.

Tommy Bolin

#7. Grace woke you up this morning, grace started you on your way and grace enabled you to survive until this very moment.

Charles E. Blake

#8. Then I saw that sparkle in Naji's eye and knew he was laughing at me.
"See?" he said. "Now you know how it feels"
I glared at him for a few seconds. He looked kind of pleased with himself, but he also looked kind of happy, and that was enough for me to turn back to my equations.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#9. He didn't argue; she was no warrior. But he understood now it took a different kind of courage to accept what you could not change and try to make the best of it.

Stephanie Snow

#10. Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

Susan Vreeland

#11. Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

Pierre Corneille