Petraccaro Debra Quotes

#1. Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Franz Kafka

#2. When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.

Phil Klay

#3. It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

George Harrison

#4. The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

H.G.Wells

#5. Whatever you want to do, do it now. Time is not on your side.

Marty Rubin

#6. If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.

Meg Rosoff

#7. It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

Viggo Mortensen

#8. Oh yeah, Cole?" Joey says, making the world's dopiest body-builder pose. "You like that?"

"Yeah, maybe I should share a bed with you tonight," Cole says. "You can be the big spoon.

Mercy Brown

#9. A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Why did the stories I knew best never end well?
But why too did I feel at home among them?
I could never give up the myths, the maps, the ship that had shaped me.
Blake's home might be paradise, but my home was the Temptation.

Heidi Heilig

#11. Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

Vernor Vinge

#12. The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.

Shaffi Mather

#13. No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process.

Ian McEwan

#14. his brother, except that he had

Diana Palmer

#15. We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

John Selden