Ciment Quotes

#1. I will craft shoes that will make her want to walk on and on.

Makoto Shinkai

#2. Darkness isn't a hole you hide in; it's the cosmos.

Jill Ciment

#3. The stupid girl thinks Muslim is a language.

Jill Ciment

#4. Old age robs you of every last illusion, even the belief in your own goodness.

Jill Ciment

#5. Outrageous!" said Apalling.
"Apalling!" said Outrageous.

Cuthbert Soup

#6. Seeing how a hand carves out meaning with a pencil point lets us remember that the human touch is essential.

Jill Ciment

#7. What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?

Walter Savage Landor

#8. Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

Bill Rodgers

#9. Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.

Jill Ciment

#10. If you look closely you'll find all my lovers inscribed on my skin.

Jill Ciment

#11. It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period of time? that the individual have a meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention and challenge whether they are being wrongfully detained.

Jeff Bingaman

#12. Anyway, since when are you shy? Just talk to him already!' '
'And say what? Nice fiddling, handsome man?'
'Absolutely.

Laini Taylor

#13. Never mind those failures till yesterday. Each new day is a sequel of a wonderful life; gifted with hopes to succeed.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#14. One cannot be interested in crime without being interested in psychology. It is not the mere act of killing, it is what lies behind it that appeals to the expert.

Agatha Christie

#15. Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal

Howard Gardner

#16. It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love.

Jill Ciment