Liris Model Quotes

#1. Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.

George Carlin

#3. I take my marching orders from the Constitution.

Ron Paul

#4. We must find him ... Some harm will fall upon our friend in his craziness. We must search through the whole world until we find him.

John Steinbeck

#5. You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

Drew Bledsoe

#6. The real question is: how will YOU checkmate the market and win in your business? Focus on the endgame and work backwards from there.

Danny Flood

#7. Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.

Thomas Oden

#8. If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

Jeff VanderMeer

#9. What art thou?' Nothing. That's the answer. Nothing. In the heart of hearts- Nothing! So of course you can't stand that and want to be Something, and you try. But instead of being this Something, the man puts it over on everybody instead.

Saul Bellow

#10. A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#11. I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

Anne Stevenson

#12. You can't look at people based on face value. There has to be more.

Carey Anderson