Catie Parker Quotes

#1. Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too, now. At first I didn't feel that way; I wanted to be a tenor player. It took a long time for me to feel that alto was the most expressive of the saxophones.

Art Pepper

#2. When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a toddler.
What I wanted to say to you, but didn't, was this: Don't use me as your model. I'm the last person you should look up to.

Jodi Picoult

#3. The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#4. I've never been thrown out of a pub, but I've fallen into quite a few

Benny Bellamacina

#5. Love me, love my rag dolls," God says. It's a package deal.

John Ortberg

#6. I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.

Colm Toibin

#7. It had worked. She understood. Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers. And as she'd grown up, that list had just gotten longer and longer.

Laini Taylor

#8. I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up.

Ron Silver

#9. Profit is a blessing, if it's not stolen.

William Shakespeare

#10. He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#11. seek those joys that fade not, which are laid up in a place of bliss - safe there for those who go in search of them.

Mary Godolphin