Lonigan Quotes

#1. Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

James T. Farrell

#2. To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

Brian Setzer

#3. The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.

Traian Basescu

#4. I wish I could hold up that knife and tear open the world. I'd slice it open and climb through to the next one.

Markus Zusak

#5. Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

Michael Mandelbaum

#6. A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. Why do we have 'Transformers 5 or 6?' Because young kids will go and see it four or five times.

Michelle Yeoh

#8. Allow yourself to feel things. Admit when you're wrong.

Lorene Scafaria

#9. To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

George Santayana

#10. Nothing in the world is permanent. The only permanent thing is impermanence.

Lisa See

#11. Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#12. I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#13. Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.

Philip Hammond

#14. You want to create a country with millions of great magicians? Then let the free thinking prevails everywhere. And thus creativity will increase and creativity is the greatest magician in our universe.

Mehmet Murat Ildan