Pg 82 Quotes

#1. Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this period is reckoned a portion of life. - Pg. 82

Robert Harris

#2. The word just hangs, until Severin starts the blender and there's only the sound of crunching and grinding vitamins, the silvery core of nourishment, containing every essential thing but the nourishment itself. (pg. 82)

Deb Caletti

#3. Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere ... - Pg. 82

Robert Harris

#4. Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

Alberto Giacometti

#5. I saw ... a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs.

Bill Hicks

#6. I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Kamala Harris

#7. Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for the benefit not so much of those to be taught or led as for the person who is to teach or lead.

Thomas S. Monson

#8. I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

Hugh Walpole

#9. On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up.

Kelly Price

#10. I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

Gore Vidal

#11. A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night.

Christy Hall

#12. Home was where the heart was and Grace's heart was a hunk of muscle that worked just fine on its own.

Jonathan Kellerman

#13. Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.

Derek Jarman

#14. She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating.

Sarah Pekkanen

#15. At an early age, I knew there were a lot of things I couldn't do. My father was a doctor, and my mother was a teacher. I knew I wasn't good in numbers, and I knew I wouldn't work well in overly structured environments.

John Ridley

#16. He turns the key.
Presto!
It opens this book of odd tales
which transform the Brothers Grimm.
Transform?
As if an enlarged paper clip
could be a piece of sculpture.
(And it could.)

Anne Sexton

#17. The apostle James tells us that a man who can control his tongue can control the rest of his body as well. This goes double for the man who is putting what the tongue does into a more permanent setting.

Douglas Wilson