Bicentennial Capitol Quotes

#1. It's quite all right," I assured him. "My mother always said that eggs were appropriate no matter the time of day." That was a filthy lie: My mother was a traditional woman who would have died before she'd fed me breakfast this late in the day.

Mira Grant

#2. Rejection is the run in the pantyhose of life.

C.E. McLean

#3. In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.

Alex Steffen

#4. If water can be changed into wine and the dead can be brought back, then I want time pushed back.

Colm Toibin

#5. Dancer nudged him in the shoulder. "I know, fella. She got me good. And it's my own fault." His horse poked him in the jaw in agreement.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#6. Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don't get connected, how will you get to know those people?

Israelmore Ayivor

#7. All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert