Mikhal Quotes

#1. Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.

Loretta Chase

#2. Mikhal - ... most of all, I want to be the man that I am only when I am with you

Mary Jo Putney

#3. Hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

Phyllis Bottome

#4. Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

Joe Biden

#5. I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?

Marla Gibbs

#6. I'm a Russian. Without the Motherland, I'd be nothing.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#7. For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

Charles Dickens

#8. This was summer at Sierra Camp, perhaps no different from

Paul Kalanithi

#9. I'm jamming 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4' all the time. Zappa's 'Cruising With Ruben & The Jets.' A lot of Gong lately. Some Hawkwind. The Residents' 'Duck Stab' is amazing. Some Fugs. Lots of stuff, man. I'm pretty schizophrenic with records.

Ty Segall

#10. We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.

Shane Claiborne

#11. Under every rock lurks a politician.

Aristophanes

#12. Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James

#13. There's a basic law, Klein's second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins.

Joe Klein

#14. Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

Warren G. Bennis

#15. Carter got jeans, boots, and a T-shirt that read Property of Alexandria University in English and Arabic. Clearly, even personal shoppers had him pegged as a complete geek.

Rick Riordan

#16. I've lived most of my life trying to please others. I don't think I can do that anymore.

Debbie Macomber