Isserley Quotes

#1. ISSERLEY ALWAYS DROVE straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her.

Michel Faber

#2. The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the

Michel Faber

#3. Was a female. Isserley wasn't interested in females, at least not in that way. Let them get picked up by someone else. If the hitcher was male, she usually went back for another look, unless he was an obvious weakling. Assuming he'd made a reasonable impression on her,

Michel Faber

#4. Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already

Michel Faber

#5. I kinda like where I am. If I'm recognized all the time, I have to leave better tips in restaurants.

William Sanderson

#6. Mother prescribing her books like medicines. A good dose of Whitman would set me straight, like castor oil. But at least she was thinking of me. I existed once more.

Janet Fitch

#7. He won't stop the war until you give him the peace prize.

Mohammed Hanif

#8. You know, I think British comedy is very smart comedy. You don't get too much dumb comedy over here. Or at least I haven't seen it. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize to all the dumb comedy makers over here.

Matt LeBlanc

#9. Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength ... all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!

Laurent Blanc

#10. There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#11. Wiping the rivulet of sweat running down my ear with the bottom of my muscle shirt, I snuck a sniff under my pit. Whoa. Kill a moose

Julie Anne Peters

#12. If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

A.A. Milne

#13. When you go to the park, there is no horizon - just Disneyland.

John Hench

#14. Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.

Jacques Derrida

#15. I'm sorry to bother you," she whispered. "When I get excited about a movie I want to talk. I can't help it.

Joe Hill

#16. What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

Alexander Suvorov

#17. One constant among the elements of 1914 - as of any era - was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

Barbara W. Tuchman