Gertraud Partsch Miller Quotes

#1. A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female's caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a purse.

Ron Rash

#2. The end of reading is not more books but more life.

Holbrook Jackson

#3. My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.

Chuck Hagel

#4. The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.

Vernon Howard

#5. One of the best things Henry Miller ever said was that art goes all out. It's all out. It goes full length ... A big book is an all-out book in which you limit your life to things that pertain directly to the book.

Nelson Algren

#6. When I work with new girls, I talk their ear off and try to make them as comfortable as possible because I remember what it was like when I first started.

Alyssa Sutherland

#7. Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it ... Hilarious.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#8. Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

Carmen Ejogo

#9. We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.

Willa Cather