Edith Armstrong Quotes

#1. I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

Eddie Vedder

#2. Give it an understanding, but no tongue.

William Shakespeare

#3. OK, so you're not perfect. Who is?

Jerry Spinelli

#4. She missed
without knowing what she missed
paints and crayons

Toni Morrison

#5. The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#6. Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Kathleen Casey

#7. I didn't become a writer to write about me.

Salman Rushdie

#8. There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.

Carlos Fuentes

#9. That was just it, wasn't it? That's what we were: dwellers all in time and space. Not old scraps of iron lashed together like a Meccano set by some invisible builder - not on your bloody life!

Alan Bradley

#10. I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

Jennifer Tilly

#11. I'd rather be a lion for a few years, than a sheep my entire life.

Mike Bhangu