Bohjalian Author Quotes

#1. New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'

Bill Maher

#2. Could he throw no light?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. My music came up from the soil of North Carolina,

Earl Scruggs

#4. You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo?

David Mitchell

#6. We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into its fold the district, the district the province, and so on until the scope of our love becomes co-terminous with the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. One lives too long. Happy X-mas.

Joseph Conrad

#8. A fortune begins with a penny.

Julie Otsuka

#9. Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.

Will Rogers

#10. The bloggers and online donors represent an important resource for the party, but they are not representative of the majority you need to win elections,

Steve Elmendorf

#11. Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

Dennis Miller

#12. If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

Trudi Canavan

#13. I find the dead easier to be around than the dying. They are not in pain, not afraid of death. There are no awkward silences and conversations that dance around the obvious. They aren't scary...Cadavers, once you get used to them--and you do that quite fast--are surprisingly easy to be around.

Mary Roach

#14. A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

B.F. Skinner