Evening Spiker Quotes

#1. Dr. Grant was right, the feeling no longer swallows her. Bela lives on its periphery, she takes it in at a distance. The way her grandmother, sitting on a terrace in Tollygunge, used to spend her days overlooking a lowland, a pair of ponds.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#2. Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. I'd noticed it because it was so weirdly out of place, a defiant crimson McIntosh in an army of dull green Granny Smiths.

Michael Grant

#4. And I know when your lips meet mine I feel as though I have never been kissed before.

Victoria Alexander

#5. Attitude will always define who we are in life.

Mark A. Brennan

#6. Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.

Timothy Leary

#8. Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness and continued economic growth. I strongly disagree with this approach.

Derek Bok

#9. We are a happy people, content with what life has given us. We don't covet anything that others have. And we are happy with who we are.

Morgan Rice

#10. I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, it's advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.

Amish Tripathi

#11. I stopped singing and they gave me an award.

Peter Frampton

#12. I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.

Sylvia Kristel

#13. To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

Baltasar Gracian

#14. Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

David Brooks

#15. When an idea takes hold, nothing can stop it!

Stephen Richards