Lisanne Skyler Quotes

#1. George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

Cesar Romero

#2. When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.

Arundhati Roy

#3. The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.

Annie Besant

#4. These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels.

Mickey Rivers

#5. Time doesn't, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

Dean Koontz

#6. The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.

Robert Frost

#7. Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.

Sheryl Crow

#8. A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

Louise Gluck

#10. The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!

John Hagee

#11. The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

Fred Allen

#12. The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

Lev Grossman