Lily Davenport Quotes

#1. Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses ... that's also the way you win over constituency.

Johnny Isakson

#2. People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

Will Oldham

#3. Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.

Alice Lowe

#4. Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

David Mitchell

#5. Attributing to another author, Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#6. I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#7. Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

William Penn

#8. God is the Father of lights.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. She felt the truck tip again, and she sucked in her breath. We're going to die right now, aren't we?
You might, but we're immortal.
She glared at Gideon. What kind of comfort is that?

Stephanie Rowe