Genuine Leather Quotes

#1. Julian Singh, he said, extending his hand. No one (a) introduces himself and then (b) extends his hand to be shaken while (c) wearing shorts and (d) knee socks and (e) holding a genuine leather book bag on (f) the first day of school.

E.L. Konigsburg

#2. Tad's mission in life is to have more fun than anyone else in New York City, and this involves a lot of moving around, since there is always the likelihood that where you aren't is more fun than where you are.

Jay McInerney

#3. My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.

Salman Rushdie

#4. I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

Margarita Levieva

#5. When life wants to get our attention it doesn't bother with half measures.

Joe Schreiber

#6. Those who live by the Qur'an have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews ... it teaches that very clearly.

John Hagee

#7. I thought the best place to hide a tree was in the woods.

Patrick Holland

#8. A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Alan Kay

#9. women in America are eleven times more likely to be murdered with guns than women in other developed nations. In the eighteen states that require background checks for all handgun sales, 46 percent fewer women are shot and killed by intimate partners than in the states that do not.

Amy Schumer

#10. I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

Ron Rash

#11. Even after I had pounded his ugly head flat, his body kept on coiling and winding, doubling and falling back on itself.

Willa Cather

#12. I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

Don DeLillo

#13. Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.

Jamie Wyeth

#14. I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Charles Bukowski

#15. People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Donald Miller