Hadleys Ice Quotes

#1. Life is just as deadly as it looks, but fiction is more forgiving.

Richard Thompson

#2. The most intimate community of all knowledge - the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.

Novalis

#3. The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. What did she want? Frances couldn't tell. She wasn't sure she cared any more. There had been too much dancing back and forth. The night had been over-stretched: it had lost its tension.

Sarah Waters

#5. I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

Victoria Jackson

#6. At the end of the day, I'd much rather do a piece about people in a story that I find riveting and intriguing and moving, versus really carrying some kind of heavy political agenda on my sleeve. That's not who I am.

Charlize Theron

#7. He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.

Alfred The Great