Perfectly Splendid Quotes

#1. In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

Tim O'Brien

#2. A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on His shoulder, He says to the bar man give us a pint and one for the road.

Tommy Cooper

#3. The quickest way to get a mans attention, is to no longer want it.

Candace Mumford

#4. Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

Jonathan Sacks

#5. Isn't it a lovely ball?" She looked around at the sea of lace and tulle and silk, the blaze of lights, the laughter and the music and the sway and swirl of movement. "I wish everyone could be as happy as I am.

Anne Perry

#6. Only regret the things you don't do

Nicola May

#7. Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.

Orlando Bloom

#8. The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

Napoleon Hill

#9. Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

Rachel Corrie

#10. Real life isn't like the movies. The victim doesn't usually win. She just endures.

Laura Wiess

#11. There should be a place and the space for all pop.

Malcolm Wilson

#12. I woke myself up to make sure I wasn't dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pillow close up near his cheek because I didn't want to wake him. He opened one eye and grinned at me. "Don't waste 'em, kitten.

Benedict Freedman

#13. My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#14. People who are chronically tardy never understand the many ways in which they screw up the schedules of people who are punctual and 'normal' ...

Lauren Kate

#15. Have you never had cake before?' he asks me.
I get nervous. Is cake a really human thing? Does everybody eat it? Would it show me up as a stranger if I say no?

Laura Dockrill

#16. In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.

Mark Levin