Purple Hibiscus Papa Eugene Quotes

#1. I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

Mary Kingsley

#2. My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

J.M. Coetzee

#3. I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. It seemed poison had been poured into wonder's own decanter.

R. Scott Bakker

#5. Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.

Dhani Jones

#6. One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

Thomas Sowell

#7. My favorite name for a color is "puce." It's kind of a dried blood color. It's a hideous color. But I love the word. It's so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white.

Elizabeth Taylor