Esturgeon Blanc Quotes

#1. Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name."
"I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.

Edmund Crispin

#2. She was artificially narrowing herself, amputating every humane and tender piece that didn't fit into a rigid frame.

David Brooks

#3. Someone had come in and mopped the floor, and the disinfectant smell was

Jennifer Weiner

#4. People will feel the way they feel.

LL Cool J

#5. Maybe it was the novels I read - the racier Mills & Boon romances of late, Danielle Steel instructing me on international sex and sin.

Manil Suri

#6. To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.

Samuel Johnson

#7. But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.

Sibel Edmonds

#8. An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

Carol Bly

#9. Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Justin Sane

#10. To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.

John Leonard

#11. [The] love of God that reaches to wherever man is, can be entirely rejected. God will not force Himself upon anyone against his will. It is your part to believe. It is your part to receive. Nobody else can do it for you.

Billy Graham

#12. I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

Alexander Graham Bell

#13. Reading is a kind of magic that transforms the world around you

Rachel Vdolek