Quotes About Short Serendipity

#1. The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.

Patricia Briggs

#2. I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.

Bill Bryson

#3. I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.

Matthew Yglesias

#4. I don't need glasses, but I've just reached the age where curiosity is greater than vanity.

Red Skelton

#5. With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

Mireille Guiliano

#6. Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

Mark Twain

#7. Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

Paul Theroux

#8. Fights come from relationships with great passion in them

Melissa Walker

#9. They keep us so hungry that we can't do anything but worry about where our next meal is coming from. They keep us hungry for so long that we are grateful for whatever little food we get.

Sook Nyul Choi

#10. Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When you're singing, usually you're trying to express some kind of pain or joy. I think that voice allows me to do a lot more of that.

Justin Vernon

#11. Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

Ken Blanchard

#13. Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.

S. Ansky

#15. Staring at the blue sky causes insomnia to occur in the human

Steven Magee