Illustrative Essay Quotes

#1. Jack looked at the paper. Devonsgate had listed all twelve footmen: John, Mark, Luke,
Thomas ... Bloody hell, his butler had hired the entire New Testament.

Karen Hawkins

#2. But what stops one from committing sins, if they have nothing to fear?" Kell shrugged. "I've seen people sin in the name of god, and in the name of magic. People misuse their higher powers, no matter what form they take.

V.E Schwab

#3. Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

Ben Elton

#4. Near the point of impact, time acelerates to the speed of light.

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. War makes persons special, peoples cheap.

Brian Spellman

#6. Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. I never get sick on airplanes, which is incredible. You're basically in a flying petri dish.

Danny Meyer

#8. I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

Ivan Klima

#9. But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought nobody else in the world would be interested.

Steven Pressfield

#10. You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Joe Louis

#11. I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.

David Conyers

#12. I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

Washington Irving

#13. If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. It matters that there's diversity on the court. I think it makes for better lawmaking, because you have people with more diverse range of judgment and who are going to make a better decision on the law.

Rachel Maddow

#15. I'm sorry."
"Say it again and I will kill you.

Nora Sakavic