Jorn Ancrath Quotes

#1. There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman ... [the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren't there.

Michelle Orange

#2. As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

Enya

#3. He needs Mom and us more than we need him. He needs a family. He's over there, all by himself, he has nobody. We have each other." She looked at me and stated, "He needs somebody. I can tell.

Kristen Ashley

#4. There are people out there who've paid good money to hear me. I always figure when all you got is the deposit slip, you better be real nice to the folks that have the checkbook.

Thomas Cobb

#5. If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

David Halberstam

#6. Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

Indira Gandhi

#7. When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

Robin Hobb

#8. Don't just expect the scouts to find you. Go to camps, clinics and make sure you are seen.

Paul Quantrill

#9. When you've committed yourself to violence it takes an almost inhuman effort to stop short. It's one of those things that once you've started need to be finished, rather like coitus, interrupting that's a sin, even the priests say so.

Mark Lawrence

#10. Riley might've been more appreciative had he had any idea what was going on. He tried to rouse himself, find out specifics, but his head was throbbing - or maybe that was his brain; he could've sworn it was about to go pop like an overripe berry under a truck tire ...

J. Fally

#11. I want you so much I'm scared," he whispered.
"I'm scared I want you so much," Kate whispered back.

Barbara Elsborg

#12. Nationalism is a self-constructed cage in which family members can huddle in safety when they're not growling and barking at someone outside the cage.

Charles Simic

#13. The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.

Ursula Hegi

#14. Only in books the flat and final happens,
Only in dreams we meet and interlock ...

Philip Larkin