Edursdotter Quotes

#1. How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#2. Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn't try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence, until I've calmed down.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

#4. I come Des Moines. Somebody had to.

Bill Bryson

#5. I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it's time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too - talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.

Ann Hood

#6. I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#7. You ... smell like rain." Whatever I expected, that hadn't been it. "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" "Good," he said. "Definitely good.

Alicia Thompson

#8. Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.

Thomas Hardy

#9. For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.

Mark Strand

#10. Did I tell you what veal practice is? Oh! Veal practice involved me lying very still on the sofa trying as hard as I could to mimic the life of a veal. While eating veal. I wish I were kidding. It. Was. Magic.

Shonda Rhimes

#11. I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

Caroline Shaw

#12. He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

Alice Hoffman

#13. I signed a $150,000 contract with TNA Wrestling for a year. I ended up 8 appearances for 40 minutes. Then I signed a second contract and they didn't use me. So, I'd like to thank them for $300,000 for 40 minutes' worth of work.

Jonny Fairplay

#14. Theology is an attempt to hack god's mind and look at the universe as he does; god's firewalls are so strong no attempt has ever been successful.

Bangambiki Habyarimana