Glisan's Quotes

#1. Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.

Lyall Watson

#2. Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable.
Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings.
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Kurt Eichenwald

#3. The ears were large, flaring forward, the eyes limpid amber, in which the pupil floated like a glittering jewel, changing color with shifts of the light: obsidian, emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, diamond.

William S. Burroughs

#4. And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.

James Joyce

#5. I don't know what's wrong with that girl.

Reggie Evans

#6. Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

Helene Hanff

#7. Hands burn for a stone, a bomb, to shiver down the glass. Nothing's changed.

Tatamkhulu Afrika

#8. When I was a little boy, my dream was to play baseball and leave Cuba.

William Levy

#9. It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

E. Nesbit

#10. Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.

Kevin DeYoung

#11. I think the most attractive thing for me when I meet a guy is confidence and him being comfortable in his own skin. I like someone who doesn't need approval or validation.

Minka Kelly

#12. Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

Dennis Cooper

#13. Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have
made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

J.K. Rowling

#14. I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

Carl Sandburg