Manoir Hovey Quotes

#1. Am I wrong about love? Is it founded on mutual respect, on like meeting like, not on heart-pounding, stomach-churning nervousness and petty compliments?

Jessica Spotswood

#2. Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?

Eoin Colfer

#4. It's the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship.

Jodi Picoult

#5. I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either.

Art Modell

#6. For Caesar met failure each time he relied on the direct, and retrieved it each time he resorted to the indirect.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#7. The attraction here is based on man's need to conquer and tame, but also to hoard and deprive others of the prize.

Francisco X Stork

#8. When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

Alexander Kluge