Bruton Memorial Library Quotes

#1. You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

Phil McGraw

#2. Maybe the best way to teach you how to seduce, is to let you feel what it's like to be seduced.

Gina L. Maxwell

#3. Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?

Jennifer Granholm

#4. The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.

Sebastian Junger

#6. So," Frosty said as we stood. "I have to ask a personal question, because our next move hinges on your answer."
I tensed, unsure about what he could possibly want to know. "Ask."
"How do you feel about stealing cars?

Gena Showalter

#7. No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.

Simon Roberts

#8. The examining physician often hesitates to make the necessary examination because it involves soiling the finger.

William James Mayo

#9. If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

Salman Rushdie

#10. As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. The CEOs of every major Wall Street firm were also on the wrong end of the gamble. All of them, without exception, either ran their public corporations into bankruptcy or were saved from bankruptcy by the United States government. They all got rich, too.

Michael Lewis

#12. Not even death can take us from the eternal blessings promised by a loving Heavenly Father.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#13. What rivalry? I win all the matches.

Martina Hingis

#14. The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.

William H. Prescott

#15. I already have the cake. You're the icing on top, with sprinkles, candied fruit, and chocolate drizzle.

Sylvia Day