Margaret Landon Quotes

#1. The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.

Margaret Landon

#2. A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.

Clement Greenberg

#3. She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

Margaret Landon

#4. When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

Margaret Landon

#5. She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

Margaret Landon

#6. Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

Margaret Landon

#7. I gaze upon the thousand stars
That fill the midnight sky;
And wish, so passionately wish,
A light like theirs on high.
I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
I feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind.

Margaret Landon

#8. The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Margaret Landon

#9. Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

Margaret Landon

#10. That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

Margaret Landon

#11. Cripes, just listen to that desperation mixed with a wild joie de vivre. That doesn't come out of nothing. They'll be able to hear that a massive eruption once rocked the world and scattered pain and passion in it's wake.

Cat Winters

#12. If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

Margaret Landon

#13. He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.

Margaret Landon

#14. She was a woman, slight, almost frail in appearance; not someone who could fight with guns to free the slaves, as in the United States, but someone who could fight with knowledge in the corner of the world where she found herself.

Margaret Landon

#15. What I want to know is what in the world so many Democrats are doing supporting the President's unilateral intervention in Iraq?

Howard Dean

#16. Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

Margaret Landon

#17. Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

Margaret Landon

#18. We should tell forensics that the murder weapon may be archaeological," I said.
"Archaeological?" asked Seawoll.
"Could be," I said.
"Is that your professional opinion?"
"Yes.

Ben Aaronovitch

#19. A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. North American cinema is the only true weapon of mass destruction. It has achieved to convince the audience not only that it's the best possible cinema, but that it is the only.

Arturo Ripstein

#21. Everything is a drive-thru. You just have to aim really fast

Josh Stern

#22. You broke it. Congratulations. You've just given me my sixth broken nose, and now I'm going to kill you.

Morgan Rhodes

#23. To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence.

Margaret Landon

#24. I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the summer between my junior and senior year. After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A. But in my senior year, I made it a part of my major.

Wes Brown

#25. He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.

Sebastian Faulks

#26. Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your God?

Margaret Landon