Flashlight Gift Sayings

#1. Read, read . . . and then read some more. Read everything you can get your hands on! Reading to a writer is as medical school is to a doctor, as physical training is to an athlete, as breathing is to life.

Andrew Joyce

#2. Authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can't be met, the authority in question should be dismantled.

Noam Chomsky

#3. I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city.

Ree Drummond

#4. For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#5. I only invoked what you already knew.

Paulo Coelho

#6. He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

Robert E.Lee

#7. Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Paul Samuelson

#8. I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

Dave Mustaine

#9. If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction.

Bob Myers

#10. Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

William Wordsworth

#11. In March 1853 she was afflicted with a pain in the chest; her tongue seemed to be covered with a film; leeches failed to make her breathing any easier.

Gustave Flaubert

#12. Be certain," Catelyn told her son, "or go home and take up that wooden sword again. You cannot afford to seem indecisive in front of men like Roose Bolton and Rickard Karstark. Make no mistake, Robb-these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command.

George R R Martin

#13. They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.

Gregory Maguire

#14. I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

Robert Rauschenberg

#15. Jackson, are you trying to challenge my authority as Alpha? Taz growled out. Ha! Therein the bullsh*t begins.

Shakuita Johnson