Kjersti Powers Quotes

#1. I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

J.C. Ryle

#3. Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

Edward Sapir

#4. One of my most vivid memories from 1974 was the gas station at the foot of the hill below my Southern California high school - car lines snaking out into the street, heralding the failure of the government's price controls and lame ideas such as odd-even rationing.

Nina Easton

#5. It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart sets aside its questions when the future is too capricious. This is the irony of tribulation.
To know the world will never be so bad.

R. Scott Bakker

#6. Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and very smart novel by a very clever and smart writer. The dialogue crackles, the plot is intriguing, and the pacing is perfect.

Karin Slaughter

#7. It was the ultimate celestial orgasm and I felt like a cup overflowing with plenty. The pulse of God moving through me brought such intense pleasure that I felt I might burst like the ripest berry in the sun.

Linda Cull

#8. What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

#9. If it's a matter of dying here or dying there, I think I'd like to at least see the world first.

Beth Revis

#10. How selfish and dark it was to count my blessings based on another's hell

Mercy Cortez

#11. Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don't ever rush into print.

Nick Flynn

#12. If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Gene Wilder

#13. If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

Yusuf Hamied

#14. The iPod is a perfect example of Steve [Jobs]' methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.

John Sculley

#15. Ron Paul is not going to be president, so we don't have to worry about who's going to be in his cabinet.

Charles Krauthammer