Nashua Quotes

#1. Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me.
Joe Biden, speaking at a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, Sept. 10, 2008

Joe Biden

#2. English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

Paul Scott

#3. a girl in a lemon-coloured shirt sat at a desk, with word processor, potted plant, mug of pencils, furry gonk, and wadges of orange paper.

Hugh Laurie

#4. I've never met anyone who's serious about enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Dalia picked up her negligee. She didn't need my help, it wasn't very heavy.

Philip Kerr

#6. When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.

Anne Lamott

#8. You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Nelson Mandela

#9. At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

Franz Beckenbauer

#10. When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you're done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

Stephen King

#11. To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

Jane Porter

#12. I feel a pang of pity for the logbook, its secrets are all plucked out in minutes by this whirlwind of light and metal. Books used to be pretty high-tech, back in the day. Not anymore.

Robin Sloan