Naxos News Quotes

#1. That it is a solecism to begin a sentence with 'and' is a faintly lingering superstition. The OED gives examples ranging from the 10th to the 19th c.; the Bible is full of them.

Ernest Gowers

#2. The single most revolutionary thing you can do is recognize that you are enough.

Carlos Andres Gomez

#3. The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

Hank Aaron

#4. I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Amy Bloom

#5. The most amazing thing I've ever seen was Jay Johnstone, in uniform, in line at a concession stand in Dodger Stadium after the game had already started.

Fred Claire

#6. Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.

Timothy Keller

#7. Do you know that I have a right to do as I like with you, - that I can kill you, if I please?" "You

Harriet Jacobs

#8. Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn