Contemporary Literarture Quotes

#1. Lucy shivered and went on again. 'This is an adventure,' she thought. 'You can't have an adventure if you stop in the middle.

Marian Cockrell

#2. Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.

Jack Nicklaus

#3. Leaf once told me that there was absolutely no difference between the Orphans' fairy tales and the nose on my face, because both were only as real as I thought they were.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#4. You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams.

Rita Rudner

#5. Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Robert Redford

#6. Today, Leslie writes at least a thousand words a day on DC Metro orange line trains. Most of them perish behind the delete button.

Leslie Welch

#7. There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true.

Daniel Amory

#8. Congress is the third branch of government ... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.

Wesley Pruden