Charles Stratton Quotes

#1. The rating agencies, who were paid fat fees by Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms for each deal they rated, pronounced 80 percent of the new tower of debt triple-A.

Michael Lewis

#2. I'm stunned by the sight of him. No, floored. My knees actually feel weak, and I dig my heels down into the grass to try and keep upright.

Karina Halle

#3. Cooked carrots taste like baby food mixed with dirt.

Kim Holden

#4. I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it ... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.

Joss Whedon

#5. Sometimes you think you love someone," I said, "but it's really just that they've become a habit.

Lisa Kleypas

#6. He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#7. The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.

Zero Mostel

#8. Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.

Peter J. Carroll

#9. Encouragement is uplifting to the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

John Lahr

#11. life may end, but memories last forever

Frank

#12. That was a thing of which he as yet had no knowing.

Stephen King

#13. Both writing and praying are acts of deep vulnerability.

Pat Schneider