Hildegarde Quotes

#1. It was Sister Hildegarde's belief that good penmanship was the defining key to success in life.

Louise Erdrich

#2. Hildegarde stood, scratched her nose, an act for which she must later say a penance.

Louise Erdrich

#3. You're just the romantic age," she continued- "fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty." - Hildegarde

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. illustrations of anthropomorphic piles of resin with dialogue bubbles above them: "Hello there, I'm Frankincense. Well, technically I'm Frankincense's monster, but everyone gets that wrong." One

Meg Wolitzer

#5. When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.

Euripides

#6. I am in love with the first lady of the United States. At the moment, a dozen vans from District florists are pulling up at the White House, and the staffers are helping me fill up her room. I'm going to ask her to marry me. Today.

Katy Evans

#7. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your glory be over all the earth.

Anonymous

#8. Look, I'm not going to have sex with him just so he'll say that he loves me, you know?
... That isn't why I was planning to have sex with Rob - to hear the words, I mean. I just wanted to get it over with. I think. Actually, I'm not sure why it seemed so important.

Lauren Oliver

#9. After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

Audie Murphy

#10. I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

David Hockney

#11. It's not a colony," another of the USIC interviewers said, with an edge to her voice. "It's a community. We do not use the word colony.

Michel Faber

#12. Initially, my father opposed the idea of joining films and did not want me to move out, but now I'm closest to him and have his full support.

Esha Gupta

#13. This isn't kissing. This is savoring your taste.

Nicole Jordan

#14. The couple that never talk to each other never discover how little they have in common.

Julian Fellowes

#15. But wasn't that what religions did? Squint at one another and declare, My unprovable belief is better than your unprovable belief. Suck it.

Laini Taylor

#16. Created for MTV in 1990, the sharply observed, pop-conscious Ben Stiller Show - featuring its star's lacerating impersonations of Bono, Tom Cruise, and Eddie Munster, among others - subsequently moved to Fox TV and copped an Emmy for writing.

Manohla Dargis

#17. There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.

Raheel Farooq

#18. Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear ...

Meg Cabot