Essayists And Their Works Quotes

#1. In the eyes of others, we're often not who we imagine ourselves to be.

Gilly Macmillan

#2. Today, if you own a smartphone, you're carrying a 24-7 singles bar in your pocket.

Aziz Ansari

#3. This is none of your concern,' his uncle spat.
'I beg to differ,' Sebastian said quietly. 'A lady in distress is always my concern.

Julia Quinn

#4. I was home-schooled.

Hailee Steinfeld

#5. Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

D. V. Ager

#6. Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.

John Caudwell

#7. After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.

Anthony Liccione

#8. He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. "I wouldn't love you if you were any weaker," he said, and let go of her.

Rosamund Hodge

#9. As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

Vandana Shiva

#10. Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

Richard Levin

#11. No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality.

Chris Murray

#12. I'd be happy just to go back to about 1990," said Scott quietly. "The way we all were then.

Tim Powers

#13. We're social animals; we're meant to be together, but we were never necessarily meant to be together without being together. That was never the plan, I don't think.

Goldie Hawn

#14. We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

Jan Chozen Bays

#15. I served as a missionary for my church. I served as a pastor in my congregation for about 10 years. I've sat across the table from people who were out of work and worked with them to try and find new work or to help them through tough times.

Mitt Romney