Piolets Quotes

#1. I had always had the oddest feeling, consider it knowledge, that if I were ever to find myself inside the cockpit of a 767 with two dead piolets and afew hundred passengers in the cabin behind me, I would absolutely be able to land the ninety-thousand-pound jet.

Augusten Burroughs

#2. We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

#3. What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

#4. Rosalie sat sideways in her chair, shaking from the laughter she was swallowing. I imagined myself drawing a gun from desk, taking aim, and killing her without so much as a quiver.

Wally Lamb

#5. Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

Jeff Kinney

#6. Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. Supposing I live, I have got a work to do; and if I die, I shall still be engaged in the cause of Zion ... If we live, we live to God; and if we die, we die to God; and we are God's, any way.

John Taylor

#8. We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.

Adam Haslett

#9. When I was growing up, I always saw Karen Millen as a resource for women who were a bit older.

Sophie Turner