Maggie Esmerelda Quotes

#1. Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

Joan Didion

#2. While we lie tumbling in the hay.

William Shakespeare

#3. What worries you masters you

Haddon W. Robinson

#4. Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

Harold Pinter

#5. What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding? The

Atul Gawande

#6. If you are to become an effective gift giver, you may have to change your attitude about money.

Gary Chapman

#7. dealing with drunks and hypes and homeless people who've got one foot in reality and the other in the Twilight Zone, you get used to seeing big changes in people, and usually not changes for the better. You teach yourself to see who's under the new bruises and the fresh coats of dirt.

Stephen King

#8. If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.

Oriana Fallaci

#9. No two persons have the same mind or the same body.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. Matthew and Luke handle the problem differently, by deciding that Jesus must have been born in Bethlehem after all. But they get him there by different routes.

Richard Dawkins

#11. A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.

Samuel Johnson

#12. Whenever I was able to work with Hillary Clinton, it was a great pleasure.

Angela Merkel

#13. With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.

Frederick Lenz

#14. The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down.

Mason Cooley