Diane Grant Quotes

#1. There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

Fidel Castro

#2. As we rode along LaBoeuf commenced whistling tunes, perhaps to take his mind off his sore arm. Rooster said, "God damn a man that whistles!" It was the wrong thing to say if he wished it to stop.

Charles Portis

#3. He adjusted his body in relation to hers. His head angled down, his hand forming a canopy between them to shield her face from the sun. It was a useless gesture. only silence. The sunlight on her hair

Jhumpa Lahiri

#4. Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.

C.S. Lewis

#5. And I'm not fighting. My plan is to enjoy the food until you kick me out.

Kiera Cass

#6. Time his depressingly miserable life story - how

John Green

#7. Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very, skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

Franz Beckenbauer

#8. That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#9. Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#10. The flower coughed. But it was not because she had a cold

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#11. Denial: my family heritage. If you don't ask the questions, the truth will never inconvenience you.

Lisa Unger

#12. The closer art reflects reality, the less artistic it becomes. Art is most enticing when it mimics life as a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. The contrary is always a grave disappointment.

Anthony Marais

#13. Once you strike a note on the organ, it's going to stay with you until you either make it louder or softer or let it go. So it's a little bit like the human voice, so you can put a human characteristic in it.

Booker T. Jones