European Novelists Quotes

#1. For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Augusta Ward

#2. So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. It is a struggle for the minds of the people ... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

Manmohan Singh

#4. In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people.

Joel Dorman Steele

#5. You're sleeping next to me right now. You're all wrapped up in blankets, and you look like a delicious lady-sandwich. I might eat you before you wake up. Just wanted to let you know.

Kate Ellison

#6. Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

Tariq Ali

#7. You know, in some ways, the celibacy tradition goes back to the tribe of Levi and, certainly, sacrifice and the notion of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, the shedding of blood was for a man to perform. It was not for the woman, who gave life.

Vincent Nichols

#8. The kind of stupid you can manage to achieve only by being really, really smart, because only really, really smart people can reach adulthood without having any goddamn common sense.

Mira Grant

#9. What's going on with the Oakland Raiders? You know, I don't want to say the Raiders are bad, but you know, now, a lot of fans are painting their faces just so they won't be recognized.

Jay Leno