Laquered Quotes

#1. Since I could only take six books per visit from the library, I had to time it right, or I'd be stuck on Sundays rereading the five Reader's Digest Condensed Books sitting on our red laquered living room shelf.

Randy Susan Meyers

#2. Every inch of land there is so contested," I observed, more to myself than to him. "How many lives have been lost fighting over Jerusalem? Yet it is not special in terms of architecture, or location, or works of art.

Margaret George

#3. No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication.

Airicka Phoenix

#4. If you listen to the real in you, that part that's pulsing and has questions and is trying to figure something out, it will shape your life in a way where, when you get to be sixty, you'll succeed. You'll be happy about your life.

Eve Ensler

#5. The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was - after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. The will of this boy thief flows in golden streams. It is the thread with which I weave, the colors with which I paint, the element with which I create.

Jessica Khoury

#7. There was something fascinating about tall thin men, the way their bones and Adam's apple lurked so unconcealed beneath the skin, their birdlike faces, their predatory stoop.

Ian McEwan

#8. Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

Zbigniew Herbert

#9. I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

Winona Ryder

#10. I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Martin Luther

#11. Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

George Will

#12. At times people who are extremely sad become lighthearted for the most trivial reasons, merely to obtain the relief furnished by the exactly opposite condition.

Naguib Mahfouz

#13. Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

Oswald Barron

#14. The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.

Madeleine Albright

#15. I always root for the defense.

Wellington Mara

#16. The true nature of the world is energy not mass.

Jeanette Winterson