Quotables Quotes

#1. A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

Ryan Lilly

#2. Just how many soldiers do you think I can fight on my own?" Alice asked.
"As many as necessary," Hatcher said. "I believe in you, Alice."
She felt for the first time that she wanted to kiss him, that she wanted to know what it was like when she chose it. So she did.

Christina Henry

#3. My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

William Soutar

#4. The best reaction is to not say a word. Simply smile,

Anonymous

#5. It's not WHAT you do for a living that brings career satisfaction. It's WHO you get to be while doing what you do that does.

Laura Berman Fortgang

#6. Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.

Susan Wiggs

#7. You can be a rich scumbag just as easily as a poor scumbag, or you can be a decent human being either way. Money's got nothing to do with it. It's nice to have, but it's not what makes you who you are.

Tana French

#8. I took an axe
To a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon
To see how it leapt. I took an axe to the wolf
As he slept.

Carol Ann Duffy

#9. I've never felt I would write the great big novel. I've ey wanted to write the sma perfect!

Jessie Kesson

#10. How do those people who don't read books plug the gaps in their day? The journeys, the break-times, the evenings when the telly is crap, the time in bed before sleep arrives?

Robert Craig

#11. The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

Milton Friedman

#12. My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

Robert Darnton

#13. I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?

Ryan Lilly

#14. When discouragement comes, don't stop. Dig deep and fight it through!

T. B. Joshua

#15. I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#16. I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
and as the train
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it's not pretty.

Charles Bukowski

#17. Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

William Osler