Homerus Furniture Quotes

#1. Mrs.Comb tightened her headscarf and wondered why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most. She could not understand it. She could not begin to understand.

David Mitchell

#2. To belittle romance fiction is to belittle women. To read romance fiction is to confront the strength of women, the variety of their experience, and the validity of their aspirations and achievements.

Judith Arnold

#3. It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers' are trying everything, that they just end up being funny.

Susan Hill

#4. It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life
without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.

James A. Baldwin

#5. I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

Zev Yaroslavsky

#6. Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around s understand or approve.

Tara Mohr

#7. The last thing I wanted when things were just barely started with Dax was having my friends make aware. What if they told my family? What was there even to tell so far? We'd kissed twice. We'd exchanged a few texts. I thought about him constantly. I'd named our first three children.
So what?

Lindsey Leavitt

#8. The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#9. Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

Hans Rosling