Lane Pratley Quotes

#1. We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little

Dean Griffiths

#2. Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

Antiphanes

#3. I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other.

Penn Jillette

#4. But it looked as if Brother Edvin had become so wrinkled simply from smiling at people. Kristin thought she had never seen anyone who looked so cheerful or so kind. He seemed to carry within him a luminous and secret joy, and she was able to share it whenever he spoke.

Sigrid Undset

#5. The market always provides us with opportunities.

Kerr Neilson

#6. A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#7. I once overheard a young white man at a book festival say to his friend, "Have you read the new Kureishi? Same old thing - loads of Indian people." To which you want to reply, "Have you read the new Franzen? Same old thing - loads of white people.

Zadie Smith

#8. Love isn't much of a legacy, Mr. Firas."
"I think there's none better."
"It doesn't last."
"It doesn't have to.

Heidi Heilig

#9. All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

Eli Siegel