Quarterlies Due Quotes

#1. I'd actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there'd be no limit to the fiends I'd encounter. They'd simply crawl out of my head, down into the world.

Marisha Pessl

#2. Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul!

Walter Scott

#3. I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.

LL Cool J

#4. Here she was with a vampire. A horror icon. A six-foot-eight, 280-pound horror icon with a set of teeth on him like a Doberman pinscher.

J.R. Ward

#5. The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

Andrew Cuomo

#6. A hot man like that was made for more than friendship.

Sara Humphreys

#7. I hated that I let him touch my sweat, that he knew how I kissed. I wanted to collect my things from him, but the things were only moments.

Stephanie Klein

#8. And I envy the intransigence of my own
Countrymen who shoot to kill and never
See the victim's face become their own
Or find his motive sabotage their motives.

Louis MacNeice

#9. Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

Bobby Fischer

#10. Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Yann Martel

#11. You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

Adlai E. Stevenson