Piesman 2017 Quotes

#1. You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

E.W. Howe

#2. I grabbed my purse, which was conveniently place by the front door. Gabriel was such a considerate abductor/host. He even left the front door unpadlocked.

Molly Harper

#3. If you were half as funny as you thought you were, my boy, you'd be twice as funny as you are.

Cassandra Clare

#4. That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

Studs Terkel

#5. If you could envision the type of person God intended you to be, you would rise up and never be the same again.

Sean Covey

#6. What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.

Carla Hall

#7. Warning: Contains a Norman warrior with a thirst for justice, a Welsh rebel princess with second sight and a steady bow hand, magical prophecies, and a plot of royal proportions.

Sandra Jones

#8. Adrian kept sending me e-mails, asking me to rescue him (while also offering unsolicited dating advice). Ms. Terwilliger continued her passive aggressive attempts to teach me magic. Eddie continued in his fierce dedication to Jill. And Angeline continued her not-so-subtle advances on Eddie.

Richelle Mead

#9. It was a long, long time since anyone had hugged him, so he hugged himself.

David Walliams

#10. Sacred Sibyl!" I cried. "Madam, there is something wrong with your midsection!"
The woman stopped, mystified, and looked down at her hugely swollen belly. "Well, I'm seven months pregnant.

Rick Riordan

#11. The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

Albrecht Kossel

#12. I remember very little of my father, but one thing I do remember is him telling me always to be polite. It costs you nothing but breath, and can buy you as much as your life.

Jim Butcher

#13. There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#14. I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

Morris Gleitzman

#15. You don't have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

Jonathan Lethem