Graines Quotes

#1. Writing is really a way of thinking
not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

Toni Morrison

#2. War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.

Simon Bolivar

#3. Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion ...

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

Philip Green

#5. You know how hard it is to actually touch the world? To make a mark on it? You die and they bury you in it.

Christopher Bollen

#6. Gratiano speakes an infinite deale of nothing, more then any man in all Venice, his reasons are two graines of wheate hid in two bushels of chaffe: you shall seeke all day ere you finde them, & when you haue them they are not worth the search

William Shakespeare

#7. A part of me, of course, was reminding myself over and over and over again that I should never have tried to lie to the higher angels of the Ephorate. Hubris, the Greeks called that. "A dumbshit move," might be a more contemporary way of putting it.

Tad Williams

#8. Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.

George Herbert

#9. I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

Joaquin Andujar

#10. Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.

Constance Briscoe

#12. The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys' camp fire.

Herbert Hoover

#13. I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'

Samuel Goldwyn

#14. I'm living out my dreams and I love what I do.

Ashley Tisdale

#15. Just as the sailor yearns for port, the writer longs for the last line.

Alix Christie

#16. A generation of people are being radicalised by the criminalisation of information sharing.

Heather Brooke