Carrie Burnham Quotes

#1. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. Certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.

Seneca.

#3. We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security.

James Hillman

#4. A woman that you find different or strange, or whom you may envy or covet is deemed by you all to be a witch! Anything that you do not understand, you deem witchcraft!

Andrea Zuvich

#5. Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Charles Caleb Colton

#6. But the happiest he ever saw his father was when he was with Ethan, someone who never knew him as he was before, who simply accepted the person he was trying to be. Jin wasn't acting then, he thinks. He was just being kind to Ethan, returning the very thing that everyone else had denied him.

Jung Yun

#7. I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew.

Yoshida Kenko

#8. I pray for John the Baptist and Baby Jesus to come around for a playdate with Dora and Boots.

Emma Donoghue

#9. Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

Jeffrey Kluger

#10. Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!

Seneca.

#11. People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.

Samantha Shannon

#12. Ideas are 10 a penny. It's the execution that's the hard thing to do. House is standing up against a tide of sentiment and emotionalism over reason that threatens to engulf this world. When you think about it, a rationalist, a man of science and reason, is in a pretty lonely position.

Hugh Laurie

#13. I come from Chino, so all your threats are empty.

John Darnielle

#14. I'm not saying I didn't have ample time to recover, ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine. When I stepped on the field for the national team, I was ready and able to make an impact, to score goals, to create chances.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#15. It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Mary Dixon Thayer