O Pioneers Ivar Quotes

#1. Nothing strengthens a woman's determination to be in love quite so much as being told that she cannot.

Gene Tierney

#2. His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone. In our youth, he'd been a strict master lording over my lessons while tender with the flower of his heart, my sister Anabine. Ana, the lovely, blooming jewel. Zyndel, she of clever wit.

Jamie Wyman

#3. His stomach, a packed elevator, began a slow descent toward his feet.

Jojo Moyes

#4. There is a lot of dignity in having the ability to confront the inconsequence of reality.

Martin Esslin

#5. I've been waiting to meet you, did you enjoy my notes?"-Selena

Micalea Smeltzer

#6. Mom used to brag to her friends when I was in grade school about what a "good husband" I was going to make some woman one day, what with my unusual sensitivity, my love of conversation, and my ability to wax a mean kitchen floor.

Kenneth M. Walsh

#7. The sun of that chilishness goes on shining even when the larger bodies of hotter stars have risen to smelt you and cover you with their influence. The recenter stars may be more critical, more in the eye, but that earlier sun still remains a long time.

Saul Bellow

#8. My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

Sandra Cisneros

#9. I do a meet and greet after every show in which I tell the audience that I would love to thank every single one of them for coming. Which a lot of people take me up on! So I get to meet hundreds and hundreds of people every night, night after night.

Rob Bell

#10. I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

Mark Boal

#11. Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

Padma Lakshmi

#12. Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb